Beeper

Beeper is a simple command line utility that prints ascii bell characters to the terminal to alert users. Its intended usecase is to alert a user for when a long running console program has ended.

For example, the following code will beep after long command has ended:

long-command ; beeper

Or alternatively you can have the console beeping continously every few seconds(in this case 5):

long-command ; beeper -l 5

Options

This utility supports 2 command line flags, -h|--help for printing the help menu and -l|--loop <time|10> for repeating the beep every time seconds (defaults to 10).

Building

You only need a GCC compatible C compiler and GNU make to build this program, the following line will build it and install it to the /bin directory of your system under posix systems.

make;sudo make install

It is also possible to build this program using Microsoft Visual C++, simply open the folder in a visual studio developer command prompt and run:

cl beeper.c /O2

This will create a beeper.exe in the current folder that you can simple move to a folder in PATH of your choosing.

I have tested this program under Windows 11 using both GCC 12.2.0 and MSVC 19.35.31935 and under Fedora Linux 37 using GCC 12.2.1, try any other platforms at your own discretion.