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NAME

beep – play a beep sound

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS


beep [-F frequency] [-D duration_ms] [-r sample_rate_hz] [-d oss_device] [-g gain] [-B] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

The beep utility is used to playback a beep on the soundcard.

The options are as follows:
-F Sets the center frequency of the beep in Hz. The default is 440 Hz .
-D Sets the duration of the beep in milliseconds. The default is 150 ms .
-d Sets the soundcard to use. The default is /dev/dsp .
-r Sets the soundcard samplerate in Hz. The default is 48000 Hz.
-g Sets the waveform gain, between 0 and 100 inclusively. The default is 75.
-B Runs the beep utility in the background.
-h Display summary of options.

EXAMPLES

Playback default beep sound using /dev/dsp .
$ beep

SEE ALSO

mixer(3), sound(4),

HISTORY

The beep utility first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

AUTHORS

Hans Petter Selasky <Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

beep (1) November 4, 2021

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