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Is there a way to generate a custom notification, and how?

I have a bash script that performs rsync backups, and this script runs as a cronjob. I want to have that script generate a notification to tell me that the backup has completed, with something like the time and date the job successfully finished. I could do this in other distros. Can I do this in EOS?

I've searched the elementaryos.stackexchange.com quite thoroughly, and have also googled it, but cannot find an answer. Thank you.

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I found an answer that works for me. I can use the command 

notify-send

More info at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications

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  • This works just fine when run on terminal. But if you try to run it as a Cron task it doesn't work (at least in my setup: elementary OS 5.1.7). There are several solutions for this in AskUbuntu forum : askubuntu.com/questions/298608/…
    – Para D
    Dec 5, 2021 at 8:15

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