How to show when my BG job is finished?

["A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema xs4all nl>]

Hi,

One of you guys probably knows this and uses it, I know it can be done, 
I just forgot the command to do it:

I want to start a command like f.i. "updatedb &" and then have the OS 
signal me when its done.

I remember it was something like:

"updatedb && msg 'updatedb is finished, go for it!' "

I then got a GUI screen showing the message.

If anyone remenbers the correct sequence, I'd be grateful.

Guus.
--
A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)