[OCLUG-Tech] how does one simply print a BEL character?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>]

  i'm feeling a bit dense right now, but all i want to do is
echo/print/printf/whatever a BEL character to get a beep. i've checked
all the standard ways, using '\a' and \007 and so on, but no alleged
variation gives me a beep. sound is turned on, so i'm puzzled.

  this is on fedora 20, is there a shell setting of some kind that i
need to tweak?

rday

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