Let the local machine beep when some event happen on remote?

Solution 1:

Create alias for beep to echo -en "\007" (beep (bell) character)

Normally beep is using your pc speaker, not terminal bell

Solution 2:

This worked for me on both OSX and a remote unix server, beeping through the normal sound output: echo -e '\a'

beep(){ echo -e '\a';}
beep
sleep 5 & beep # beeps now
sleep 5; beep # beep in 5s
# same thing using ruby -e 'sleep 5'