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MIN=20; MAX=60;MOD=$(($MAX-$MIN)); while sleep $(( $RANDOM % $MOD + $MIN));do beep -f $(($RANDOM % 19960 + 40)) -l $(($RANDOM%600 ));doneNote that ubuntu users (and others) may require root permissions in order to do this. See the beep manpage for ways to fix this.beep=$(whereis beep|awk '{print $2}');sudo chmod g+x $beep; sudo adduser $USER $(ls -l $beep|awk '{print $4}')This just makes beep executable by it's group, and then adds you to that group. On non-ubuntu systems, it's wise to make sure that the group is not "root", which could cause some security issues when you run this. Aside from that, it should work as is