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