Write (Unix)

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The correct title of this article is write (Unix). The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

write can refer to several Unix commands.

All known variations of write are used to write messages to another user. The most popular variation sends a message directly to another user's TTY, displaying a message of the form:

Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...

A version of the write command appeared in the First Edition of the Research Unix operating system. Another variation of write writes a message to a user on a Windows network, using the SMB packet format.

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