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I've heard about notify-send of libnotify-bin, but it only seems purposed for GUI desktops.

Is there a simpler counterpart that's just for consoles? Similar to the warning/notification we get when Ubuntu is shutdown or reboot.

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answered 2 Years ago heathree · Accepted Answer

The venerable write and wall commands do what you are looking for.

write user [tty]

will echo whatever it reads from stdin to the terminal that user is using, or to a specific terminal.

The wall command (w rite to all) notifies all console users at once. This is the command used by shutdown.