How I trigger the "System Bell" in nodejs

Output the BELL character (Unicode 0007) to the standard output.

console.log('\u0007');

References

  • ASCII/ISO 8859 (Latin-1) Table

  • Unicode Characters: 00000 to 000FF

  • The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7: Portable Character Set

  • Programming with Unicode Documentation (unicodebook.pdf)

  • How a bullet turns into a beep – The Old New Thing

  • Unicode 10.0.0 Final Names List


The console.log('\u0007') didn't work for me running VSCode on windows 10. The following code did work:

import { exec } from 'child_process'
exec(`rundll32 user32.dll,MessageBeep`)