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12.1 > Misc > beep (1.2.2)

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.

Approved by: Alan_Hicks, robw810
Maintained by: gnubien