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>