write

Write a message on the terminal of a specified logged in user (ctrl-C to stop writing messages). Use the who command to find out all terminal_ids of all active users active on the system. See also mesg. More information: <https://manned.org/write>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/write.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install util-linux
Ubuntu
apt-get install radare-common
Alpine
apk add util-linux
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S util-linux
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install util-linux
CentOS
yum install util-linux
Fedora
dnf install util-linux
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install radare-common
OS X
brew install util-linux
Raspbian
apt-get install radare-common
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/write
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/write write powered by Commando

Write a message on the terminal of a specified logged in user (ctrl-C to stop writing messages). Use the who command to find out all terminal_ids of all active users active on the system. See also mesg. More information: <https://manned.org/write>.

  • Send a message to a given user on a given terminal id:
    write username terminal_id
  • Send message to "testuser" on terminal `/dev/tty/5`:
    write testuser tty/5
  • Send message to "johndoe" on pseudo terminal `/dev/pts/5`:
    write johndoe pts/5

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