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{{short description|Standard Unix utility}}
{{lowercase|title=talk (Unix)}}

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| caption                = [[Command-line]] Unix "talk", using a split screen [[user interface]], was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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| operating system       = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[V (operating system)|V]]
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<code>'''talk'''</code> is a [[Unix]] [[online chat|text chat]] program, originally allowing messaging only between the users logged on to one multi-user [[computer]]&mdash;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Although largely superseded by [[IRC]] and other modern systems, it is still included with most [[Unix-like]] systems today, including [[Linux]],<ref>[https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/talk.1posix.html ''man talk''], ubuntu.com</ref> [[BSD]] systems<ref>[https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talk&sektion=1 ''man talk''], freebsd.org</ref> and [[macOS]].<ref>[https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/talk.1.html ''man talk''], apple.com</ref>