beeper

Purpose

This is a script that simply beeps forever - or at least until you kill it… or the system is rebooted, or the user is killed, or aliens invade, etc. The way I use it is I combine it with another command that I expect to run for several seconds, if not several minutes. beeper will let me know when the other command finishes.

Syntax

Syntax: beeper

Options and arguments

There are no options or arguments

Example

$ date; sleep 5; date; beeper
Wed Apr 18 10:53:13 EDT 2018
Wed Apr 18 10:53:18 EDT 2018
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* 2018-04-18 10:53:18.981124: Beeping started *
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* 2018-04-18 10:53:23.738956: Beeping ended, 0:00:04.757832 *
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$

Notes

• In the example, ^C stands for me entering ctrl-C to kill the script… otherwise it keeps running and beeping.
• The message indicating that beeping has ended includes the duration. In the example above, 4.78 seconds.