[TriLUG] Dumb Question: Terminal Beep Command

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Tue Feb 15 17:18:14 EST 2005


> % some_long_running_process ; beep ;

Use 'vi' to create a two-liner shell script, like this:

    #!/bin/sh
    echo "<ctrl-V><ctrl-G>"


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






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