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About talk
Talk with other logged in users.
Syntax
talk person [ttyname]
| person |
If you wish to talk to someone
on your own machine, then person is just the person's login
name. If you wish to talk to a user on another host, then
person is of the form 'user@host'. |
| ttyname |
If you wish to talk to a user
who is logged in more than once, the ttyname argument may be
used to indicate the appropriate terminal name, where ttyname
is of the form 'ttyXX' or 'pts/X'. |
Examples
talk hope Typing the above command would start a talking
session with the user hope.
Related commands
mesg
who
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