System bell

[Daniel Bickett]

Trent Mick wrote:
> I suspect that you are misinterpreting failure as success here. This is
> probably only resulting in a bell from the shell when it complains that
> it doesn't know of any command called "\a" to run.

Contrarily, \a is in fact the escape sequence for, as the OP put it,
the system "bell" . I can only speak as a Windows user however; I'm
unaware of the prevalence of this feature across operating systems.

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