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Re: [PLUG] System Bell - Beep!
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"Jeff Abrahamson" <jeff@purple.com> wrote on 06/10/2003 at 11:57:58 PM:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:10:01PM -0400, zeek wrote:
[...]
> > Does anyone know how to ring a system bell, a beep w/o additional
> > software? I've tried:
> >
> > echo -n -e "\a" and echo -n -e "\007"
> >
> > but neither of these are working --even for systems which ring
> > bells on other calls.
[...]
> These both work for me:
>
> /bin/echo -n -e "\a"
> echo -n -e "\a"
>
> Since echo is also a shell built-in, you have to specify that you want
> /bin/echo if you want it.
Bash uses the readline library. Perhaps readline is configured not to
generate a bell tone? Jeff's suggestion should work, if that's what's
going on. Still, you might try adding
set bell-style audible
to .inputrc, in your home directory. Readline configuration is covered
in the bash man page.
pls
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