beep(3)

beep3

Ring the bell

Usage

beep ?percent?


    


    


    

Overview

The beep command rings the keyboard bell. Percent is relative to the base volume of the keyboard bell and can range from -100 to 100 inclusive.

If percent is nonnegative then the bell volume is:

base - [(base * percent) / 100] + percent

If percent is negative then the bell volume is:

base + [(base * percent) / 100]

The default percent is 50.

Examples

beep

Keywords

bell, beep

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

  1. 2.2–3.0

From blt-dev 2.4u-7 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Also shipped by blt8.0-dev. Parsed by carta from the page's roff source.