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by drummojg 431 days ago
TIL '\a' is bell on POSIX. That's neat to me all by itself.
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It's character 0x7 in ascii and has existed since before ascii was even standardised.

You can type it in a terminal with ctrl-g. It won't be displayed in most cases and if you've configured your terminal like me won't make a sound.