[TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

[Warren Myers]

it's also ASCII character 7

WMM


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:13:25 -0500, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:23:43 -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.
> 
> I regularly use
> 
> printf "\\a"
> 
> in bash scripts, which produces "alert" aka BEL aka whatever.
> 
> MPF
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