talk

A visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/talk-invocation.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/talk.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install talk
Ubuntu
apt-get install talk
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S talk
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install talk
CentOS
yum install talk
Fedora
dnf install talk
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install talk
Raspbian
apt-get install talk
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/talk

A visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/talk-invocation.html>.

  • 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

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