{"id":1012,"date":"2014-07-13T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/13\/powertip-generate-random-beeps-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-generate-random-beeps-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-generate-random-beeps-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Generate Random Beeps with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to generate random beeps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I generate random beeps by using Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Create a range of numbers between 190 and 8500 that will determine the tone. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Random<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to choose a random number of tones. Pipe the results to the&nbsp;<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ForEach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and call the&nbsp;<b>Beep<\/b>&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;<b>system.console<\/b>&nbsp;class. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The first number determines the tone, and the second number determines the length of the tone. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here is an example of this technique:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">190..8500 | Get-Random -Count 35 | ForEach {[console]::Beep($_, 150)}<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to generate random beeps. &nbsp;How can I generate random beeps by using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Create a range of numbers between 190 and 8500 that will determine the tone. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Use the&nbsp;Get-Random&nbsp;cmdlet to choose a random number of tones. Pipe the results to the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to generate random beeps. &nbsp;How can I generate random beeps by using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Create a range of numbers between 190 and 8500 that will determine the tone. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Use the&nbsp;Get-Random&nbsp;cmdlet to choose a random number of tones. Pipe the results to the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}