Rob wrote: > Perhaps see how using the bell character works for you. You could even do it > with a shell script: > > ... | grep 'your-regex' | while read line; do printf '\x7'; done
This is probably not helpful since it does only print the matching lines. Try sed to insert the bell character: ... | sed 's|\([^(]nickname\)|\x7\1|' I left the [^)] out, since it could be the case, that someone mentions your nick at the end of his message. --Markus
