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Irssi

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2015
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NAME

Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX

SYNOPSIS

irssi [--config=PATH] [--home=PATH] [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

DESCRIPTION

Irssi is a modular Internet Relay Chat client; it is highly extensible and very secure. Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many features, Irssi is easily extensible through scripts and modules.

OPTIONS

--config=FILE: use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config
--home=PATH: PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi; default is ~/.irssi
-c, --connect=SERVER: connect to SERVER
-w, --password=PASSWORD: use PASSWORD for authentication.
-p, --port=PORT: automatically connect to PORT on server.
-!, --noconnect: disable autoconnecting of servers
-n, --nick=NICKNAME: specify NICKNAME as your nick
-h, --hostname=HOSTNAME: use HOSTNAME for your irc session
-v, --version: display the version of Irssi
-?, --help: show a help message

FILES

~/.irssi/config: personal configuration file
~/.irssi/config.autosave: automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed externally
~/.irssi/default.theme: default irssi theme
~/.irssi/away.log: logged messages in away status
~/.irssi/scripts/: default scripts directory
~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/: directory containing links to scripts that should be loaded automatically on startup
~/.irssi/startup: file containing a list of commands to execute on startup

AUTHORS/CREDITS

Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen; this manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen, Stefan Tomanek, Geert Hauwaerts.