Victor: This is excellent. But how do we generalize this? What is the correct syntax to set up our bash (or whatever) environment to automatically append a '; $sound_command' to whatever command we might type? I know we can easily customize with aliases. Is that the best solution? It might be, because that way we could assign a particular sound for a particular command. Hmmm. And shouldn't we be able to somehow indicate the console involved with a variable? Were I come from, we call these kinds of sounds earcons, by the bye. On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > Hello, listers! > Some of you have asked previously whether it is possible to have some sort > of beep after certain command exits or certain task terminates. Yesterday I > was playing around with Linux with another friend of mine, Luke Davis, who > is yet another Linux user from Philadelphia. Accidentally, we recalled that > Unix allows one to specify several commands on a single command line by > dividing these commands with a semicolon. So, for instance, to run pine > after your lynx exits you could enter: > > lynx; pine <ENTER> > > The Pine would fire up as soon as you quit Lynx. that opens a lot of > interesting possibilities for providing temporary sound solutions to > indicate termination of a background task or any other event. You could > either run `play' command with your beloved .wav file on the command line or > you could create a very short script called beep and exploit it. > Say, we have a file called beep_when_you_re_done.wav and you'd like to know > when your kernel finishes compiling. You might enter: > > make bzImage output.txt 2>&1 &; play beep_when_you_re_done.wav > > Now you can safely switch to another console and do other things. When "make > bzImage" is finished, it will play the file. > > Hope this can help someone. > Regards, > Victor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
