Re: Beep?

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

dkphoto@cyber-wire.com (dkphoto) wrote:
>I've lost track of how many Unix/Linux/???ix books I've bought now and 
>none of them seems to be very thorough. It seems every author assumes you 
>are using his/her particular flavor of Unix and don't need to know 
>anything at all about any of the others.

Yep, it's a fragmented world. The core of Unix - the syscall interface,
the C library, the shell - are similar everywhere, though, even if they
aren't quite identical. For help with the nitty-gritty of particular
distributions, though, it's usually best to go to the distribution
itself.

>The one I am reading now says that the ^G command makes the system 
>'beep.' It doesn't. How do I produce the system sound/beep/warning, 
>whatever you'd like to call it?

I'm assuming you *are* typing Ctrl-G, not "^G"? If that doesn't work,
try putting 'set bell-style audible' in your ~/.inputrc. Try:

  echo -e '\a'

... as well (read 'help echo').

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]