Computer Science
WALL(1) Linux User's Manual WALL(1)
NAME
wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal.
SYNOPSIS
wall [ message ]
DESCRIPTION
Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their
mesg(1) permission set to yes. The message can be given as
an argument to wall, or it can be sent to wall's standard
input. When using the standard input from a terminal, the
message should be terminated with the EOF key (usually
Control-D).
SEE ALSO
mesg(1).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
10 October 1994 1
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