Bell sound alert when giving me the prompt "(y/n)?"

[ghost]

I have feature request: when running script with flag --ask add bell sound alert every time the interaction is needed (for example: when appears question Continue (y/n)?). It would be very convenient.

I found that's very easy to implement:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Terminal_control/Ringing_the_terminal_bell#UNIX_Shell

[sakaki-]

Hi, OK I will look at adding this as an option. Making the noise is easy enough (tput bel), as is outputting this anytime genup (or buildkernel) itself prompts. Also emerge has a --alert option which could be passed through to make it vocalize.

I guess that would probably cover most of what you want (monitoring an interactive shell to detect certain strings is not trivial, so I'd rather avoid that route if possible)?

Best, sakaki

[ghost]

Yes.

Thank you very much.

[sakaki-]

Hi, just released genup-1.0.8 (and buildkernel 1.0.12) with the feature you requested. To try it, first update sakaki-tools (running your existing version of genup should achieve this), then call genup with the --alert (or -A) flag to get the interactive prompt bell (this will automatically turn on --ask for you also).

Please let me know if this works at your end (and close out this issue if so).

Best, sakaki

[ghost]

It works perfectly.