Tim, thanks. I have an application in mind for this.
What I've been doing so far to test network connected status was:
ping -c 5 www.google.com|grep %
That returns a line of output giving packet thruput statistics and if I
have 0 percent packet loss I know my network is up. I just need to
figure out how to itegrate this.
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Tim Chase wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:41:11
From: Tim Chase <blinux.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Using $PROMPT_COMMAND to beep depending on success/failure
Stumbled on this one today thanks to @climagic on Twitter. If you
want to have your machine give you one tone if the previous command
succeeded (had an exit-status of 0) and a different tone if the
previous command failed (had a non-zero exit status), you can put the
following one-liner in your .bashrc file:
PROMPT_COMMAND='[ "$?" == 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
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