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Problem

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

Solution

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/inetutils.html#talk-invocation>.

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>

Code Snippets

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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