How to emit a "beep" on my computer while running a script on a remote machine?

Question

I run a long script on a remote machine and I would like to hear a beep when the script ends. On my machine I can add at the end of the script:

echo -e '\a' > /dev/console

but this is not working on the remote machine which complains :

-bash: /dev/console: Permission denied

How to achieve this ?

Answer 1

You could run the script by passing it as a parameter to ssh and then echo the beep locally:

ssh user@host /path/to/script; echo -e '\a' > /dev/console