WALL(1) BSD General Commands Manual WALL(1)NAMEwall — write a message to users
SYNOPSISwall [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 mes‐
sages.
Reading from a file is refused when the invoker is not superuser and the
program is suid or sgid.
SEE ALSOmesg(1), talk(1), write(1), shutdown(8)HISTORY
A wall command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
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/.
Linux 0.99 March 8, 1993 Linux 0.99