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03-13-2008

benlutgens

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Join Date: Nov 2007

Posts: 9

try using a pipe?

try

Code:

cat sometextfile | wall

also you wouldn't want to "quote" the path when you're using shell redirect.
so

Code:

wall < "/path/to/file"

would cause that to be a literal string.

Code:

wall < /path/to/file/

should work fine.