On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Alan Porter wrote: > > > % some_long_running_process ; beep ; > > Use 'vi' to create a two-liner shell script, like this: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "<ctrl-V><ctrl-G>"
I found an old shell called beep on a system here that had setterm -blength 250 -bfreq 3000 echo -e "\a" which also works fine. The setterm command can actually change the duration and frequency of the beep command. I did not see a parameter for volume. Mike > > > In vi, the ctrl-V will allow you to insert a literal character > next. In this case, you'll have an ASCII 07 character in between > your quotes. > > > Alan > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
