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How To Use Wall In Linux Mint / Ubuntu : A Retro Way Of Messaging Users
May 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments
There is a pretty cool command in all Linux versions (including Mint / Ubuntu) by which you can broadcast messages to all users who have their terminals open. Even more useful is the fact that you can actually display all the contents of a file to all the logged in users.
This command is called the wall (maybe that’s how Facebook got it 🙂 ). General format of this is : wall <filename>.
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