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About write
Send a message to another user.
Syntax
write person [ttyname]
| person |
If you wish to talk to someone
on your own machine, then person is just the person's login
name. If you wish to talk to a user on another host, then
person is of the form 'user@host'. |
| ttyname |
If you wish to talk to a user
who is logged in more than once, the ttyname argument may be
used to indicate the appropriate terminal name, where ttyname
is of the form 'ttyXX' or 'pts/X'. |
Examples
write hope
Typing the above command would start a talking
session with the user hope.
If you type your name, you can echo back
Related commands
mesg
talk
who |
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