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authorBenno Schulenberg2014-07-15 23:07:37 +0200
committerKarel Zak2014-07-16 12:03:25 +0200
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docs: bring a few more man pages closer to standard formatting
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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.\"
.TH WALL "1" "August 2013" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
-wall \- write a message to users
+wall \- write a message to all users
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B wall
.RB [ \-n ]
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ wall \- write a message to users
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B wall
displays a
-.I message
+.IR message ,
or the contents of a
-.I file
-or, by default, its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged
+.IR file ,
+or otherwise its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged
in users. The command will wrap lines that are longer than 79 characters.
Short lines are whitespace padded to have 79 characters. The command will
always put a carriage return and new line at the end of each line.