BIFF(1) | General Commands Manual | BIFF(1) |
biff
—
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).
biff
utility exits with one of the following values:
biff
command appeared in
4.0BSD.
December 20, 2016 | NetBSD 9.4 |