what's the cygwin/Windows equivalent of Linux' notify-send

Question

Linux has the command notify-send for sending user notifications to the desktop manager. (In many environments, these show up as pop-ups in the corner of the screen, along with low battery warnings and other system messages.) I use it in monitoring and back-up scripts.

Cygwin doesn't seem to have lib-notify, so is there a Windows equivalent for this command? Web searching has lead me to articles about running batch files from Windows' system tray/notification area, or attempts to clean the system tray up from a batch file, but I haven't found a way to produce unobtrusive user messages from background processes.

Answer 1

You can try notifu. It's a kind of command line notification app, so you can use it in cygwin.

Usage: notifu /p title /m message