Questions tagged [bell]

I know how to ring the bell with echo -ne '\a' (or, even better if you don’t mind relying on an external command: tput bel). However, what it actually does is sending some special code to the output; then, if that output happens to be a terminal,…

Thanks to chepner's answer here about visible bells I have made an alias for apt-get {update,upgrade,dist-upgrade} to visually notify when the task is complete apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade ; printf '\e[?5h' ; read -p ''…

I am using this command to beep tput bel echo -e "\a" I need to change the beep tone with some tone using some other command.