Posted 2003-06-04T14:36:00+01:00 in recipe unix

No bell - Another reminder

I don't like the bell sound in the (Bash) shell. Somehow PC speakers always make a bell sound that's way too loud. The bell feature is provided by the readline library that Bash uses. The readline library has an optional configuration file at ~/.inputrc. One of the options you can set is the bell, so let's make my shell silent:

        set bell-style none