Pelibali, On Sunday 09 October 2005 04:14, pelibali wrote:
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man beep + a small script should do it.
Hmmm, maybe for you it's trivial, for me it is not:( 'man beep' is quite uninformative; 'beep' alone works, but none of my attempts, as
beep 100 beep -100 beep 100% beep(100)
Actually, the "beep" that Steve G. referred to does not have a man page. What you get when you run "man beep" is a man page for the Tk BLT library. That explains why your attempt to use what's defined there does not produce results consistent with the description.
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e.g. just now I made an executable file containing
#!/bin/sh beep <<< and put it into '/etc/init.d/beepsy', then symlinked it to '/etc/init.d/rc3.d/512beepsy' and no beep happens at all...
The "beep" command is just an alias defined within one of the BASH start-up scripts. Use the fallback equivalent also mentioned by Steve: echo -n $'\a'
Thanks, Pelibali;)
Randall Schulz