beep 1.0 review

beep is a truly simple utility to make a beeping sound from the command line.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Ian McCall Price: $0.00 Updated: 07 Oct 2005

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beep is a truly simple utility to make a beeping sound from the command line.

Useful in scripts to alert the user to the fact something has happened, or perhaps after a sleep command to indicate the sleep has finished.

Instructions:
Copy the binary to somewhere on your path, eg. /usr/local/bin, and type either:
beep to get a single beep, or beep f to beep n times.

Prerequisites:
I developed this using gcc under OS X 10.4.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0). Thus the download contains a binary for OS X, but this should be portable to any OS that has the CURSES library available.
Requirements:
Tested on OS 10.4.2, but should run on any.