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hey is there a way or write a scipt to send messages to other people without using pre existing applications such as "write" or "to"

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echo "boo" > /dev/pts/1

Replace /dev/pts/1 with the users terminal device. Of course, if they've used "mesg n" you may note be able to write to this file.

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