Getting "beep:19: unknown file attribute: h" running beep

[ftraxxler]

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[ndim]

That sounds very interesting, as I have no idea what that could be.

@ftraxler-tgm Could you please elaborate a bit? To begin with

• What version of beep? (beep --version and maybe the operating system's package version)

• What kind of operating system and which version?

• What beep command line?

• What is the output when you add --verbose to that beep command line?

• What is the output of

  • echo "$SHELL"
  • which beep
  • file $(which beep)

We will see where we need to go from there.

[ndim]

@ftraxler-tgm At this time, I suspect you are running some zsh incompatible shell script called beep under the zsh shell. The beep project does not ship any such shell script.

I will need your feedback to help confirming or disproving this hypothesis and understanding what is actually happening here.

Looking forward to your feedback.

[ndim]

@ftraxler-tgm are you still there? Have you resolved the problem already?

[ftraxxler]

Yes I am currently using zsh but I have not tested it with bash since.

[ndim]

Ah, thank you very much for the reply.

Now the question is

• what does that script actually do (cat "$(which beep)") and
• who wrote and shipped that script

because this project does not ship any shell scripts called beep.

I suspect that script to be a manually created script left over from an old manual installation, or from some distribution package.