Did you know that ^G historically makes a "bell" sound?

Want to relive that glory on #Linux now?

watch -n.1 echo -e '\\a'

I'm certainly not suggesting that sneaking something like this into a coworkers .bashrc would be a wise idea.
Now I'm legit curious how much less studder this would have on an RT #Linux kernel.

@vwbusguy yeah,

apt-get install beep

or maybe in your case, yum install beep?

:D

@vwbusguy on my work machine (Windows, ugh), I wake my bluetooth headset up with "echo ^G" all the time :)
@scott Yup - It predates DOS. My Osborne One has a "BELL" label on the G key and it also works on the Apple //e. I *assume* it goes back to typewriter days, but that's as far back as I know about it.
@vwbusguy That's neat that the Osborne had it labelled on the keyboard.

@scott Curiosity got the better of me and it turns out, it goes back to 1800s telegraphy as an audible EOL marker.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

Baudot code - Wikipedia

@vwbusguy addendum: ^G is from GNU #Readline, and performs an abort in the current editing operation.

It also works the same way in
#Emacs.