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From: David Gibson
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00

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Matt Hyne (mhyne@rp.csiro.au) wrote:

: Can someone tell me how to send a wall message from the cmd line.

: I want to broadcast a message but i dont want to have create a temp file
: to hold the message in.

Try
	echo <message> | wall
or
	cat | wall


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