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From: decot@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bells and beeps
Message-ID: <67930009@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 14 May 91 23:29:42 GMT
References: <May.13.12.56.58.1991.1079@pilot.njin.net>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> we are novice unix users running a hewlett-packard 9000/835 under
> hp-ux (a berkeley and at &tt unix hybrid. how do we activate
> a keyboard beep from within a korn shell script? the idea is
> to warn users of invalid entries before the screen clears.

    echo "You made a mistake!^G"

where ^G means you hit control-G at that point in entering the script.

Dave