Send interactive messages

[RicardoPereira]

How do i send an interactive message to a user on linux. Something like net send on windows.

Thanks
Ricardo

 

[BIS]

man talk
man wall

 

[jstreich]

talk [green]<username>[/green]

talk is like a small chat program, you can see as they type including mistakes and backspaces.

write [green]<username>
[message]
<CRTL-D>[/green]

write writes a message to one of their open terminal windows (possibly on top of useful information)... I like write, except when using console based text editors like pico/nano or vi(m). Also note that every time you press enter at the end of a line it shows up.

wall [green]<message>[/green]

[b]OR[/b]

wall
[green][message]
<CRTL-D>[/green]

wall is used to write all users, it's a special version of write. All data is held untill the end, so you can CRTL-C it if you want to rewrite it. You can also do something like:

vi [green]<file>[/green]
cat [green]<file>[/green] > aspell > wall

This would create a file [green]<file>[/green], write the file [green]<file>[/green] to all users after being run through a spell check.