Linux/write

write

 * Thank's KRB


 * 1) press w to see you is logged in

w "me" "other user"


 * 1) the use the write command

write "other user"

--- 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 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 super-user) from writing to you with the mesg(1) command. Some commands, for example nroff(1) and pr(1), may disallow writing 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) (END)