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NAME
beep —
emit tone from console speaker
SYNOPSIS
beep |
[-v] [-d
⟨device⟩] [-p
⟨pitch⟩]
[⟨duration⟩] |
beep |
-h |
beep |
-V |
DESCRIPTION
beep causes a tone to be emitted from the console
speaker.
The following options are available:
-V- Display version of
beep. -v- Verbose mode. Print details of the tone to
stderrbefore playing. -d- Specify the device to use. The default is usually /dev/speaker.
-h- Display usage message.
-p- Specify the pitch of the tone in Hz. The default is usually 800Hz.
The optional operand can be used to specify the duration of the tone in centi-seconds. The default is usually 5cs.
FILES
/dev/speaker default console speaker device
DIAGNOSTICS
beep prints diagnostic messages to
stderr. In addition beep may
exit with with the following codes:
- EX_OK
- All was aparently successful.
- EX_USAGE
- The flags or operands specified were incorrect or a parameter was out of range.
- EX_OSFILE
- The speaker device specified could not be opened. This may be because of a permission problem, the device not being configured in the running kernel or some other such error.
- EX_IOERR
- A problem occured while trying to play the tone or close the speaker device afterwards.
SEE ALSO
kbdcontrol(1), speaker(4)HISTORY
beep was developed under FreeBSD
4.6.
AUTHORS
beep was written by Andrew
Stevenson ⟨andrew@ugh.net.au⟩.
BUGS
None known.| June 9, 2002 | UgH! |
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