Comment 4 for bug 315932

Dustin Kirkland has just independently reinvented feedback from long-run background commands again; which I came to file as a wishlist and then found this bug report (with patch no-less...). Here's kirkland's solution:

  http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/dear-command-line-please-ping-me-when.html

on the commends on that post several other people mention having done equivalent mash ups themselves; which seems to be indicate a use-case.

Remember Ubuntu developed and add 'command-not-found' and the sudo first-run notification, and those distros rapidly followed-suite.