Re: beep unconditionally

[Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu>]

> How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it
> from a batch job or whatever.  Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY.
> 
> I used to do the below, but now:
> $ echo -e \\a > /dev/console 
> bash: /dev/console: Permission denied
> Now only root can make it beep.  Without resorting to root powers,
> what can one do?
> -- 
> http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780

Try:

printf "\a"

HTH

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Stephen W. Juranich                             sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering             http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington                http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli





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