Talk (software)


talk
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, V
PlatformCross-platform

talk is a Unix text chat program, originally allowing messaging only between the users logged on to one multi-user computer—but later extended to allow chat to users on other systems.

Although largely superseded by IRC and other modern systems, it is still included with most Unix-like systems today, including Linux,[1] BSD systems[2] and macOS.[3]

  1. ^ man talk, ubuntu.com
  2. ^ man talk, freebsd.org
  3. ^ man talk, apple.com