How can I trigger a notification when a job/process ends?

Generally, if you know this before running the command, you can just start it with: This will execute the after the previous command has exited (regardless of its exit code). The will start it in background. If you care about a successful or failure exit, respectively use: If the command has already started you may use job control to suspend it, then return it to the foreground with chained with your notification: Now … what you want to do after this depends on your environment. On any system, …