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3.4 KiB
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87 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)wall.1 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/23/91
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.\"
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.\" Modified for Linux, Mon Mar 8 18:07:38 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu
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.\"
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.TH WALL "1" "September 2011" "util-linux" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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wall \- write a message to users
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B wall
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[-n] [-t TIMEOUT] [file]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Wall
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displays the contents of
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.I file
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or, by default, its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged
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in users. The command will cut over 79 character long lines to new lines.
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Short lines are white space padded to have 79 characters. The command will
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always put carriage return and new line at the end of each line.
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.PP
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Only the super-user can write on the terminals of users who have chosen to
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deny messages or are using a program which automatically denies messages.
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.PP
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Reading from a file is refused when the invoker is not superuser and the
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program is suid or sgid.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nobanner\fR
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Suppress banner
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.TP
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\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-timeout\fR \fItimeout\fR
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Write
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.I timeout
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to terminals in seconds. Argument must be positive integer. Default value
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is 300 seconds, which is a legacy from time when people ran terminals over
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modem lines.
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.TP
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\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
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Output version and exit.
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.TP
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\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
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Output help and exit.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR mesg (1),
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.BR talk (1),
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.BR write (1),
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.BR shutdown (8)
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.SH HISTORY
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A
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.B wall
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command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The wall command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
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Linux Kernel Archive
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.UE .
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