[TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

[Shane O'Donnell]

Script it and alias the script? 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Brian Henning
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:24 PM
To: TriLUG
Subject: [TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

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
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