NAME
wall
—
write a message to users
SYNOPSIS
wall |
[-g group]
[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 superuser can write on the terminals of users who have chosen to deny messages or are using a program which automatically denies messages.
The options are as follows:
-g
group- Send messages to users in this group. This option may be specified multiple times, and any user in any of the specified groups will receive the message.
Since the sender's
locale(1) need not match the receivers' locales,
wall
deliberately ignores the
LC_CTYPE
environment variable and allows ASCII
printable and space characters only. Non-printable characters and UTF-8
characters are replaced with question marks.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A wall
command appeared in
Version 7 AT&T UNIX.