talk

linux

A visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.

Examples (5)

Start a talk session with a user on the same machine

talk username

Start a talk session with a user on the same machine, who is logged in on tty3

talk username tty3

Start a talk session with a user on a remote machine

talk username@hostname

Clear text on both terminal screens

<Ctrl d>

Exit the talk session

<Ctrl c>