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[9]1.TH GETTY 8
2.SH NAME
3getty \- system login banner
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B getty
6.RI [ banner " ...]"
7.SH DESCRIPTION
8.B Getty
9displays a system identification banner, reads a user name from standard
10input and executes
11.B login
12with that name as argument.
13.PP
14.B Getty
15uses its arguments separated by spaces as a login banner. The character
16sequences
17.BR \en ,
18.BR \es
19and
20.BR \et
21are printed as newline, space and tab. Any other
22.BI \e x
23prints that
24.IR x .
25The character sequences
26.BR %s ,
27.BR %n ,
28etc. produce the same output as
29.BR "uname \-s" ,
30.BR "uname \-n" ,
31etc. The default banner is
32.PP
33.RS
34%s\es\esRelease\es%r\esVersion\es%v\en\en%n\eslogin:\es
35.RE
36.SH "SEE ALSO"
37.BR ttytab (5),
38.BR init (8).
39.SH AUTHOR
40Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>
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