How to play notification sound on the command line
The following bash script plays a notification bell on almost any Linux computer where common desktop components are installed:
play_notification.sh
paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.ogacomplete.oga comes from the sound-theme-freedesktop APT package on Ubuntu, whereas paplay is part of the pulseaudio-utils package. If you don’t have these packages installed, you can install them with:
install_notification_sound_deps.sh
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