How to stop the annoying beep in OSX Terminal (and Bash shells in general)

This was driving me nuts for ages – I couldn’t work out how to turn off that annoying beep you got whenever an auto-completion had multiple or no hits. Anyway, it’s a ReadLine configuration (so it’ll apply to any shell using ReadLone) – edit (or create) .inputrc in your home directory, and insert the following line:

<code>

	

set bell-style off

</code>

Finally – peace!

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3 Responses to “How to stop the annoying beep in OSX Terminal (and Bash shells in general)”

go into the window-settings menu option under ‘terminal’

select ‘emulation’.
uncheck ‘audible beep’
check ‘visual beep’
click use settings as default

;-)

Well sure, if you want to get all ‘easy to use’ on me, that might work too…

THANKS !!!!!

Really hated this ‘beep’ of the terminal.

Argh !

And yes, peace at last :)

Thanks again.

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