wall command from perl

J

jcharth

hello is there a way to execute a print statement that works like the
wall command?. Just to print to console like a broadcast to command
 
X

xhoster

hello is there a way to execute a print statement that works like the
wall command?. Just to print to console like a broadcast to command

open my $all, "|wall" or die $!;

print $all "whatever";

Xho
 
T

Tad McClellan

hello is there a way to execute a print statement that works like the
wall command?.


# untested
open my $WALL, '|-', 'wall' or die "could not fork 'wall' $!";
print {$WALL} "Warning Will Robinson!\n";
close $WALL;
 

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