| BIFF(1) | General Commands Manual | BIFF(1) |
biff —
biff |
[n | y] |
biff informs the system whether you want to be notified
when mail arrives during the current terminal session.
The options are as follows:
When mail notification is enabled, the header and first few lines
of the message will be printed on your screen whenever mail arrives. A
“biff y” command is often included in
the file .login or .profile
to be executed at each login.
biff operates asynchronously. For
synchronous notification use the MAIL variable of
sh(1) or the mail
variable of csh(1).
biff utility exits with one of the following values:
biff command appeared in
4.0BSD. “Biff” was Heidi Stettner's dog.
He died in August 1993, at 15.
| August 12, 2013 | OpenBSD-current |