> If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound Actually, no it does not. My less displays the bell characters as ^G instead of showing them as raw.

> If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound Actually, no it does not. My less displays the bell characters as ^G instead of showing them as raw. Whether you hear the bell, or simply see ^G, depends upon how you have less configured. I leave mine configured to use the caret notation for control characters (which for my version of less, is also the default).