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Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

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On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote:
> Having it work out-of-the-box would be nice. After a fresh install, I have a
> bash script I run that installs all the apps I use and configures them.
> Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs to answer. Thus, if I
> want to have the script running and go do something else, I want to "beep"
> when it's going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work
> in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep" package and
> use beep to alert the user. I have tried escape codes via echo -e as well,
> and no beep there either.
> 

Does printf "\a" works for you? Though, echo -e "\a" works here too.

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  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of   Jessie Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-08-01 00:20 +0200
    Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of   Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 00:40 +0200
  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 15:10 +0200
    Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 17:20 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-08-01 17:30 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-08-01 18:00 +0200
          Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 19:20 +0200
            Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-08-01 20:30 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:10 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 19:20 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:10 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:00 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 21:30 +0200
          Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-08-02 06:00 +0200
            Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-02 06:30 +0200
  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-08-02 16:40 +0200
    Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-05 14:30 +0200

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