beep: beep (does exactly what you would expect: it beeps) beep: beep: Unlike printf("\a"), beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and beep: repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow beep: more granularity than one would otherwise have. It is controlled beep: completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be beep: complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever beep: else it gets hacked onto) that much more informative. beep: beep: You may need to set beep executable suid. beep: