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WRITE(1)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  WRITE(1)



NAME
       write - send a message to another user

SYNOPSIS
       write user [ttyname]

DESCRIPTION
       Write allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your termi-
       nal 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 super-user) from writing to you with the
       mesg(1) command.  Some commands, for example nroff(1) and pr(1), may disallow writ-
       ing automatically, so that your output 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 specifying 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.

SEE ALSO
       mesg(1), talk(1), who(1)

HISTORY
       A write command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.



                                 12 March 1995                        WRITE(1)

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