How to make the hardware beep sound in Mac OS X 10.6
tput bel works in most shells.
In OS X, this (and any other command that makes the bell go off) also gets you a badge if the command is executed when Terminal was not in the foreground:
Printing \a did not always work for me (MBA, 10.7.4). I use this instead:
say "beep"
Indeed, the following is effective and somewhat melodic:
say -v Bells "dong dong dong"[Update] Unfortunately Bells is no longer included in latest OS X. Try:
say -v Victoria Do your homework!Use the following to explore voices:
say -v \?