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Old 07-10-2005, 02:23 PM   #1
lungsucker
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Question looking for a beep

could someone help me with a command. i am writing a bash shell menu script. I need the command line command to make the puter beep when it is time for the user to put in input. anyhelp would be appreciated. no luck in my books. thanks, lung using fedora core
 
Old 07-10-2005, 02:31 PM   #2
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Try this in your script file:

echo -en "\007"

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Old 07-10-2005, 02:38 PM   #3
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Try :
echo -e "\a"
 
Old 07-11-2005, 08:01 AM   #4
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