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Beep

Base/usr/share/man/man1/beep.md

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Name

beep - beep the pc speaker

Synopsis

**sh
$ beep

Description

beep allows the user to beep the PC speaker.

Options

  • -f frequency, --beep-tone frequency: Beep tone (frequency in Hz)
  • -n N, --duration N: Duration (N in milliseconds)

Notes

If the user disabled the usage of PC speaker in the kernel commandline, the program will fail to use the PC speaker.

Examples

sh
# Use beep with default tone
$ beep
# Use beep with tone of 1000Hz
$ beep -f 1000
# Use beep with tone of 1000Hz for 1 second
$ beep -f 1000 -n 1000

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