TALK(1) | General Commands Manual | TALK(1) |
talk
— talk to
another user
talk |
[-Hs ] person
[ttyname] |
talk
is a visual communication program
which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.
The command arguments are as follows:
-H
-s
talk
window. The
default is to clear the next two rows and jump from the bottom of the
window to the top.user@host
’.ttyXX
’.When first called, talk
sends the
message
Message from Talk_Daemon@localhost... talk: connection requested by your_name@your_machine. talk: respond with: talk your_name@your_machine
to the user you wish to talk to. At this point, the recipient of the message should reply by typing
$ talk
your_name@your_machine
It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies, as
long as the login name is the same. If the machine is not the one to which
the talk request was sent, it is noted on the screen. Once communication is
established, the two parties may type simultaneously, with their output
appearing in separate windows. Typing control-L
(‘^L
’) will cause the screen to be
reprinted, while the erase, kill, and word kill characters will behave
normally. To exit, just type the interrupt character;
talk
then moves the cursor to the bottom of the
screen and restores the terminal to its previous state.
Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the mesg(1) command. At the outset talking is allowed. Certain commands, such as pr(1), disallow messages in order to prevent messy output.
SIGINT
talk
and exit with a zero status.The talk
utility exits 0 on success, and
>0 if either an error occurred or talk
is invoked
on an unsupported terminal.
The talk
utility is compliant with the
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification, though its presence is optional.
The flags [-Hs
] are extensions to that
specification.
The talk
command appeared in
4.2BSD.
May 25, 2017 | OpenBSD-current |