How do I disable the putty bell via command line?

Question

What parameters would you have to pass, in order to disable putty bell via command line?

Answer 1

I don't think you can do exactly what you ask.

I would disable the bell in Putty's settings menu, save as a session. Then you can set Putty's command line options to -load sessionname.

You can also create a custom termcap/terminfo entry which has bel undefined.

There's no command you can run at the host that would instruct Putty to ignore ^G (bell).

stty has -imaxbel but that most likely does not do what you want.

Answer 2

In puTTY Configuration (start putty without any options or sesions) you have a session called Default Settings. Just change the setting under Terminal -> Bell to Visual Bell (flash window) and then go back to the Session part of puTTY Configuration and save this as the new Default Settings.

After doing this all future sessions will have this disabled by default.