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Man Write

The write command allows users to communicate with other users by copying lines from one terminal to another. When write is run, the targeted user will see a message indicating someone is writing to them, and any further lines entered will be copied to their terminal. To end the conversation, the user types EOF or an interrupt character.

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Man Write

The write command allows users to communicate with other users by copying lines from one terminal to another. When write is run, the targeted user will see a message indicating someone is writing to them, and any further lines entered will be copied to their terminal. To end the conversation, the user types EOF or an interrupt character.

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WRITE(1) User Commands

WRITE(1)

NAME
write - send a message to another user

write user [ttyname]

DESCRIPTION
write allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your
terminal 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 superuser) from writing to you with
the mesg(1) command. Some commands,
for example nroff(1) and pr(1), may automatically disallow writing, so that
the output they produce 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 giving 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.

OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.

-V, --version
Print version and exit.

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

SEE ALSO
mesg(1), talk(1), who(1)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY
The write command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded
from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.38.1 2022-05-11


WRITE(1)

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