Macos – Play sound on mac terminal

alertmacosterminal

I have a script running in the background and sends me an alert every few minutes. I want the alert to be in the form of a beep.

Question: How can I play a beep in mac terminal?

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printf \\a and osascript -e beep play the default alert sound, but they are silent if the alert volume is set to zero. printf \\a is also silent if an audible bell is disabled.

You could also use afplay or say:

afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Funk.aiff
say done

There are more sound effect files in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ScreenReader.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Sounds/.

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I'm not sure about Linux but on Mac OS X you can change the theme in the preferences. Open Terminal, then go to the Terminal menu -> Preferences, choose the Settings tab and set the Pro theme as the default.

If you don't need it as the default you can choose Shell -> New Window/Tab -> Pro and you'll get a one off terminal with that theme.

I'm sure something similar is possible on Linux also.

Macos – How to make Terminal bounce its application Dock icon in OS X

BounceTerm may be just what you're looking for. From the web page:

BounceTerm is a SIMBL plugin for Mac OS X's Terminal.app that makes the dock icon bounce when a bell or beep is triggered. This can be useful if you have a long-running process going on and you want to be notified when it's done (assuming it beeps, of course).

No configuration is necessary, just open the .dmg file, run Install, and restart Terminal.app. To uninstall, simply run Uninstall from the .dmg.

If you want to make sure the plugin's working, try running
while [ 1 ]; do echo -n '\a'; sleep 2; done 
in your shell and focusing a window in another application. You should see Terminal.app's dock icon bounce every two seconds.

So for your scenario:

a && b && c && while [ 1 ]; do echo -n '\a'; sleep 2; done

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