NAME

beep — play a beep sound

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The beep utility is used to play a beep on the sound card.

The options are as follows:

-B

Runs the beep utility in the background.

-D duration_ms

Sets the duration of the beep in milliseconds, between 50 ms and 2000 ms inclusively. The default is 150 ms.

-F frequency_hz

Sets the center frequency of the beep in Hz. The default is 440 Hz.

-d oss_device

Sets the OSS device to use. The default is /dev/dsp.

-g gain

Sets the waveform gain, between 0 and 100 inclusively. The default is 75.

-h

Display summary of options.

-r sample_rate_hz

Sets the sound card sample rate in Hz, between 8000 Hz and 48000 Hz inclusively. The default is 48000 Hz.

EXAMPLES

Play default beep sound on /dev/dsp:

SEE ALSO

mixer(3), sound(4)

HISTORY

The beep utility first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

AUTHORS

Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>