Getting "beep:19: unknown file attribute: h" running beep

spkr-beep / beep

beep is a command line tool for linux that beeps the PC speaker

https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep

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Getting "beep:19: unknown file attribute: h" running beep #9

Open ftraxxler opened 4 years ago

ndim commented 4 years ago

That sounds very interesting, as I have no idea what that could be.

@ftraxler-tgm Could you please elaborate a bit? To begin with

What version of beep? (beep --version and maybe the operating system's package version)
What kind of operating system and which version?
What beep command line?
What is the output when you add --verbose to that beep command line?
What is the output of
- echo "$SHELL"
- which beep
- file $(which beep)

We will see where we need to go from there.

ndim commented 4 years ago

@ftraxler-tgm At this time, I suspect you are running some zsh incompatible shell script called beep under the zsh shell. The beep project does not ship any such shell script.

I will need your feedback to help confirming or disproving this hypothesis and understanding what is actually happening here.

Looking forward to your feedback.

ndim commented 4 years ago

@ftraxler-tgm are you still there? Have you resolved the problem already?

ftraxxler commented 4 years ago

Yes I am currently using zsh but I have not tested it with bash since.

ndim commented 4 years ago

Ah, thank you very much for the reply.

Now the question is

what does that script actually do (cat "$(which beep)") and
who wrote and shipped that script

because this project does not ship any shell scripts called beep.

I suspect that script to be a manually created script left over from an old manual installation, or from some distribution package.