NAME

beep — emit tone from console speaker

SYNOPSIS

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 stderr before 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.