Mark Shuford wrote:
Don't know, ain't tried it, but...

<CTL>-g

is the ascii bell character.


Yep, it sure is, and if you press Ctrl-g in the terminal window, you get a beep! The question is how to automate it. For the record, my goal is thus:


% some_long_running_process ; beep ;

So that I'll get an audible indication when my task is done (in this case, blanking a CD-RW).

Cheers!
~Brian
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