wall

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Version: 43587 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)


BSD mandoc
Linux 0.99

NAME

wall - write a message to users

SYNOPSIS

wall [file ]

DESCRIPTION

Wall displays the contents of file or, by default, its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged in users.

Only the super-user can write on the terminals of users who have chosen to deny messages or are using a program which automatically denies messages.

Reading from a file is refused when the invoker is not superuser and the program is suid or sgid.

SEE ALSO

mesg(1), talk(1), write(1), shutdown(8)

HISTORY

A wall command appeared in AT&T System v7 .

AVAILABILITY

The wall command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.