Re: [gentoo-dev] add a "beep" to Portage

[Bob Phan]

* [Dec 12, 2002] Bob Thomas <gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu>:
> Gustavo Felisberto wrote:
> >
> >
> > > option in portage to output a beep (char 7) when it is finished
> > > with an
> >
> >
> > How about:
> > emerge beep
> > and then
> > emerge whatever; beep -r 2
> > Or a small script that dos it for you?
>
> Well, if you were going to put something on every line linke that, you
> could put emerge whatever; echo -e \\7. I was thinking of something
> that wouldn't involve the extra typing, it would just beep when the
> emerge finished without having to type something extra every time you
> emerged something. In retrospect, it's not a big enough deal to modify
> Portage over.

You can simulate the effect you're going after with a quick bash
function:

function emerge {
    /usr/bin/emerge $@; echo -e \\7
}

That way, there's no extra typing needed nor installing other packages,
and it works right now.  I suppose you could also swap the echo
statement with aplay and have it play some kind of compile is finished
sound.  Seems kind of interesting.

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