Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:

> 
> $ echo "\a"
> \a
> $ 

You know quite well what I'm talking about :).

Some "echo" implementations (ksh in particular) interpret \a as the
keyboard bell. Sadly, it appears that NetBSD's /bin/echo, as well as the
echo built into vanilla bourne do not treat this escape sequence
specially. Bash's echo will honor it if the -e flag is passed.

It just struck me that `printf "\7"' should also do the trick,
regardless of the shell in question.

Dan
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