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Re: Printing a Message to All Consoles

by Nitrox (Chaplain)
on Mar 05, 2003 at 18:52 UTC ( [id://240661]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Printing a Message to All Consoles

One way to do it would be:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open MSG, "|/usr/bin/wall" or die "Failed to open pipe to wall"; print MSG "This is message 1.\n"; print MSG "This is message 2.\n"; close MSG;

Also check the 'wall' man page for more info.

-Nitrox

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