Stumbled on this one today thanks to @climagic on Twitter. If you want to have your machine give you one tone if the previous command succeeded (had an exit-status of 0) and a different tone if the previous command failed (had a non-zero exit status), you can put the following one-liner in your .bashrc file: PROMPT_COMMAND='[ "$?" == 0 ] && play -qn synth sin F3 trim 0 0 0.1 fade 0 0.1 0.05 vol 0.2 || play -qn synth square F4 trim 0 0.1 fade 0 0.1 0.05' This uses the `play` command from the `sox` package. There are a number of tweaks you can make to change the tones, timbres, wave-form, volume, duration, etc. The above uses an F3 sine-wave at 20% volume for success and an F4 square-wave at 100% volume for failure. To test it out, use the `true` and `false` commands (they don't do anything other than exit with a particular zero/non-zero exit code). But here's hoping someone here finds it useful. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list