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WRITE(1) User Commands WRITE(1)
write - send a message to another user
write user [ttyname]
write allows you to communicate with other users, by copying
lines from your terminal to theirs.
When you run the write command, the user you are writing to gets
a message of the form:
Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
Any further lines you enter will be copied to the specified
user's terminal. If the other user wants to reply, they must run
write as well.
When you are done, type an end-of-file or interrupt character.
The other user will see the message EOF indicating that the
conversation is over.
You can prevent people (other than the superuser) from writing to
you with the mesg(1) command. Some commands, for example
nroff(1) and pr(1), may automatically disallow writing, so that
the output they produce isn't overwritten.
If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one
terminal, you can specify which terminal to write to by giving
the terminal name as the second operand to the write command.
Alternatively, you can let write select one of the terminals - it
will pick the one with the shortest idle time. This is so that
if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from home,
the message will go to the right place.
The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the
string `-o', either at the end of a line or on a line by itself,
means that it's the other person's turn to talk. The string `oo'
means that the person believes the conversation to be over.
A write command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
mesg(1), talk(1), who(1)
The write command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found
at ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2021-03-21. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
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util-linux March 1995 WRITE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: mesg(1), wall(1)
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