[TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

[Brian Henning]

Hi Guys,
   Back in the days of DOS, there was a really cool shell command, 
"BEEP."  Amazingly, execution of said command caused a terminal beep.  I 
am looking for exactly that function in a bash shell, but for some 
reason it is eluding me.

Ooh, here we go:  From the bash manpage: $'\a' results in an alert, or 
bell.  So my question becomes, is there a preexisting shell command that 
will accomplish "echo $'\a'" in less than half the number of keystrokes, 
and doesn't result in a line-feed in the terminal?

Thanks!
~Brian