wall - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
wall -- send a message to everybodys terminal.
SYNOPSIS
wall [
-n] [
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
walls standard input. When using the standard input from a terminal,
the message should be terminated with the
EOF key (usually Control-D).
The length of the message is limited to 22 lines.
For every invocation of
wall a notification will be written to syslog, with facility
LOG_USER and level
LOG_INFO.
OPTIONS
Tag | Description |
-n
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Suppresses the normal banner printed by
wall, changing it to "Remote broadcast message".
This option is only available for root if
wall is installed set-group-id, and is used by
rpc.walld(8).
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ENVIRONMENT
Wall ignores the
TZ variable - the time printed in the banner is based on the systems
local time.
SEE ALSO
rpc.rwalld(8).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg,
miquels@cistron.nl
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