NWALL(1)

📦 version 1.32, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💬 NWALL(1) — the manual, but make it a group chat 💬

okay so bestie, you've opened the manual page for nwall, a chat friendly wall program, filed under General Commands Manual. Section 1, like a real one. Sit down, hydrate, let's go. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

nwall</purl> — it's a chat friendly wall program. That's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nwall [-hny]

That's it. Three little letters of power. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: nwall is an interactive chat program that uses the same mechanisms that wall(1) uses. Same plumbing, cuter outfit. 🎀

It uses GNU readline to get your user input — yes, that readline, the one that gives you line editing like a civilized main character — and then it sends that input to a log file and to users' ttys. So everybody sees it. Publicly. Like a group chat where you can't delete messages. 😭

And here's the kind part: users may opt out from receiving nwall broadcasts. Consent is iconic, periodt. 💖

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h — show a summary of options. A little help menu, a little "here's what you can do, bestie". 🌈
  • -n — opt out from receiving nwall broadcasts. You're muting the chat. No hard feelings, honestly valid. 🙈
  • -y — opt to receive nwall broadcasts again. Unmuting. Welcome back to the group chat, we missed you. 🥳
ngl, -n and -y are literally just a toggle, so pick your fighter and commit. 🫡

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • wall(1) — the original. The blueprint. The mother. Go say hi. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>, for the Debian project — but may be used by others. Generous king behavior, we love to see it. 🫶✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one is from the General Commands Manual, NWALL(1), dated March 10, 2001. old enough to have its own vibe, still slaying fr fr 💅🎀🦋

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