talk(1)

talk1

Talk client

Usage

talk [OPTION ...] person [ttyname]

Overview

Talk to another user.

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

Releases

7 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3–2.0
  4. 2.1–2.2
  5. Arch

--help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --usage since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -? since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -V since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

Author

Written by Kipp Hickman, Clem Cole, and Peter Moore.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From inetutils 2.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.