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15.0 > Misc > beep (1.3)

beep does exactly what you would expect: it beeps.

Unlike printf("\a"), beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and
repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow
more granularity than one would otherwise have. It is controlled
completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be
complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever
else it gets hacked onto) that much more informative.

You may need to set beep executable suid; thre are potential security
issues with doing so, but the beep source code is very small and
easily auditable, and you won't get a lot of use of it unless it's
suid, but that's your call. See the SlackBuild script for the proper
variable to change if you want to install it suid.

Maintained by: gnubien
Keywords: beep,pc,speaker,pcspkr,miscellaneous,misc
ChangeLog: beep