Mesg
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- The correct title of this article is mesg. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
mesg is a Unix command that sets or reports the permission other users have to write to your terminal using the talk and write commands.
mesg is invoked as: mesg [y|n]
The 'y' and 'n' options respectively allow and dissallow write access to your terminal. When invoked with no option, the current permission is printed.
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