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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: why does the bell ring twice?
From:       Dan Nelson <dnelson () emsphone ! com>
Date:       2001-06-30 19:02:26
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In the last episode (Jun 30), parv said:
> can anybody enlighten me why do bash & ksh ring the bell twice
> instead of once?
> 
> # echo  &
> 
> second beep is produced when you press enter when new/clear shell
> prompt shows up.

Because when you background a job, the shell keeps track of it and
notifies you when the command completes.  Try running "echo test &",
and look at the "done" message.  That's where your second bepp is
coming from.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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