This used to be a bigger timesuck for me because I didn&#x27;t always have a good interrupt to tell me that whatever process (e.g. compile) had finished.<p>I&#x27;ve since added a bash alias that helps: `alias beep=&quot;echo -e &#x27;\a&#x27;&quot;`<p>`burkemw3@laptop$ compile ; beep` makes sure I don&#x27;t have that excuse anymore.