BIFF(1) | General Commands Manual | BIFF(1) |
biff
— be notified
if mail arrives and who it is from
biff |
[n | y ] |
biff
informs the system whether you want
to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session.
Options supported by biff
:
When mail notification is enabled, the header and first few lines
of the message will be printed on your screen whenever mail arrives. A
“biff y
” command is often included in
the file .login or .profile
to be executed at each login.
When no arguments are present, biff
displays the current notification status to the standard output.
biff
operates asynchronously. For
synchronous notification use the MAIL variable of
sh(1) or the
mail variable of
csh(1).
The biff
utility exits with one of the
following values:
The biff
command appeared in
4.0BSD.
December 20, 2016 | NetBSD 10.99 |