Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:57:27 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: why does the bell ring twice? Message-ID: <20010630215727.B6979@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010630140226.A3334@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:02:26PM -0500 References: <20010630134554.A5930@moo.holy.cow> <20010630140226.A3334@dan.emsphone.com>
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so, Dan Nelson shared this in my lifetime... > In the last episode (Jun 30), parv said: > > can anybody enlighten me why do bash & ksh ring the bell twice > > instead of once? > >=20 > > # echo =07 & > >=20 > > second beep is produced when you press enter when new/clear shell > > prompt shows up. >=20 > Because when you background a job, the shell keeps track of it and > notifies you when the command completes. Try running "echo test &", > and look at the "done" message. That's where your second bepp is > coming from. >=20 so you mean that since the bell character is in the "done" message, beep is produced again. right? may be that's why beep is produced whenever i would check the status of this job... # sleep 300 && echo =07 & # no beep # jobs # beep # fg # beep # bg # beep --=20 so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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