Super simple beep program cc0 Stephen Wiley It's expected to be used for mail and command completion notification, it needs alsa and aplay to work. USAGE: beep freq duration freq is in HZ, duration is in seconds. All arguments are floating point decimal note: in older versions the frequency was off by a factor of 2pi, this has been corrected and the output was verified with a spectograph. DOWNLOADING AND COMPILING: As someone with no write access to /usr/lcal/bin git clone https://github.com/s2607/beep.git cd beep ./inst.sh INSTALLING sudo ./inst.sh USING IT TO BEEP ON NEW MAIL: Replace the command in your crontab with a modified version of mail.sh