[TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

[David Rasch]

Looks like there is a program written for this purpose.  In Debain it's
contained in the package "beep".  It looks like there's some RPM's for
older RH's here: http://www.johnath.com/beep/ along with the source
code.

David

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:23:43PM -0500, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> 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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