BeepAtMe

 

This page was last updated on October 9, 2011.

 

Any of these methods may work to get a script to beep at you at whatever point you insert the command:

echo $"\a"

Or:

echo $'\a'

Or:

echo "\a"

Or:

echo '\a'

Or:

echo -e "\a"

Or:

echo -e '\a'

Or:

printf "\a"

Or:

printf '\a'

Non-printing beeps

If you want to create a log file to show the script output as it runs, you could use a command like this:

bash scriptname | tee -a logfilename

You may want to send the beep only to the terminal so tee doesn’t log it in the text file. You can do this by adding either > /dev/tty or >&2 to the commands above. For example:

echo -e '\a' > /dev/tty

Or:

echo -e '\a' >&2

Obligatory Happy Ending

And they all lived happily ever after. The end.