Execute not working

[Marsgames]

Hey,

I'm trying to execute a simple diff check when I click on my notification but it's not working. I tried to add -activate com.apple.Terminal and this one works but after that nothing more. I tried to run an osascript that will open a new terminal window and then run my command but it doesn't work much.

My command

terminal-notifier -title "My notification" -message "The description" -activate com.apple.Terminal -execute "diff .bashrc .gitconfig"

macOS : 10.14.2
terminal-notifier : 2.0.0
Install with brew install terminal-notifier

Thanks

[julienXX]

Have you tried using the full path for the diff tool and the files you want to compare?

[Marsgames]

Yep sir, same result

[NateEag]

I'm not sure this is likely to happen with diff, but I hit an issue that looked like -execute failing because the command I was running would fail if run without first sourcing ~/.bashrc.

Since -execute is not an interactive shell, my ~/.bashrc was never loaded, and thus some of the configuration my command required was not available, causing silent failure.

I didn't think to check this until after I figured it out, but I opened up Console.app and checked in system.log, and there was indeed a record of the failure there. Nothing very useful, just that the process exited with status 1:

... (fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier.3924[15942]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

I then tried running my known-bad command while Console.app was open, and then the error output from the failed command was visible when I had my laptop selected in the "Devices" section of the sidebar.

@julienXX , I suggest updating the docs to point out that if you want to see output from terminal-notifier, opening Console.app, selecting your device, and running it will do the job. Add a parenthetical note that this is especially useful for debugging silent failures from -execute commands and I think this would bite fewer people.

[amandamana]

I've found that -execute fails when combined with -sender at least on Mojave. The same shell commands trigger if I don't fake the sender. Probably worth noting that this wasn't a problem on El Capitan.

[kupietools]

-execute is silently failing for me even with console open.

Command: /Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -message INBOX -execute "/Applications/Betterbird.app/Contents/MacOS/betterbird-bin"

Console output shen I click the show button:

default	11:07:47.878237-0400	usernoted	Received response <NotificationRecord app:"fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier" ident:"DA39-A3EE" uuid:"B19D7215" source:"1B1B8FC6" <response action: action actIdent: ACTION foreground: false text: nil> >
debug	11:07:47.878333-0400	usernoted	Removing delivered <NotificationRecord app:"fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier" ident:"DA39-A3EE" uuid:"B19D7215" source:"1B1B8FC6" <response action: closed actIdent:  foreground: true text: nil> >
debug	11:07:47.878720-0400	usernoted	Removing displayed <NotificationRecord app:"fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier" ident:"DA39-A3EE" uuid:"B19D7215" source:"1B1B8FC6" <response action: closed actIdent:  foreground: true text: nil> >
info	11:07:47.879136-0400	usernoted	Response <NotificationRecord app:"fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier" ident:"DA39-A3EE" uuid:"B19D7215" source:"1B1B8FC6" <response action: action actIdent: ACTION foreground: false text: nil> > sent to NSUserNotification client <ClientConnect: 0x00007fe4ebe19980 identifier: fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier pid: 66552 type: Application source=<SourceIdentifier: { uuid: 1B1B8FC6-D260-41DB-9CE0-727ED0020B41 signed: false appleSigned: false daemon: false isPush: false flags: 1 path: /Applications/terminal-notifier.app } >>
debug	11:07:47.879264-0400	usernoted	msg of 2 sent for fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier
info	11:07:47.883439-0400	NotificationCenter	Queuing action removeAlert for app fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier items 0
info	11:07:47.883522-0400	NotificationCenter	Queuing action removeAlert for app fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier items 0
default	11:07:47.883861-0400	NotificationCenter	Unable to find notification to delete matching B19D7215-7BCA-43E6-9B1E-DE2C91914242 fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier
info	11:07:47.898293-0400	NotificationCenter	Queuing action removeDelivered for app fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier items 0
default	11:07:47.898452-0400	NotificationCenter	Unable to find notification to delete matching B19D7215-7BCA-43E6-9B1E-DE2C91914242 fr.julienxx.oss.terminal-notifier

When I enter /Applications/Betterbird.app/Contents/MacOS/betterbird-bin on the command line, Betterbird opens as expected.

I checked my privacy & security preferences, terminal-notifier.app has full privileges for accessibility, automation, and disk access.

[kupietools]

Not long after my last comment, it started working again with my having done anything. Now it stopped again, once again without my having done anything.

EDIT: As noted in the issue about open not working #306, belay that. I somehow had a frozen terminal-notifier process in the background. I killed it and open and execute suddenly work again.

[kupietools]

This is becoming a pain point. I don't work on my terminal-notifier script that often, so the trivia that a crashed instance of the process hiding in the background can somehow prevent -execute from working is not foremost in my mind, and I lose 2 hours troubleshooting before I finally google and find my own old comment above. A solution would be preferable. Is there some way of fixing this or preventing it from happening?