How to pipe /dev/urandom to linux sound output?

This doesn't seem to work at all:

cat /dev/urandom > /开发者_C百科dev/dsp    #from wikipedia.org

Is it because of pulseaudio? or I need to do some settings?

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I'm not sure there is a simple device you can just send the bytes to these days - the /dev/dsp device is an old OSS thing and probably won't exist on a modern ALSA based system where the sound card is controlled by the devices in /dev/snd.

You're probably better off using aplay or something to "play" the data from /dev/random though you will probably need to give it a load of switches to tell it what format to assume the data is in. To make it play as if it were WAV data you want something like:

aplay -c 2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 /dev/random

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pacat /dev/urandom
Works on ubuntu without any additional installation.

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cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 10 | sed 1000000000q |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 10 | sed 1000000000q |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 10 | sed 1000000000q |aplay



cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '&*(&(^)' | fold -w 10 | sed 1000000000q |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '&*(&(^)' | fold -w 10 | sed 1000000000q |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '~`!@#$%^&*()' | fold -w 1 | sed 1000000000q |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc "0-9a-z" |aplay

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 |aplay -r 192000