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II(1) |
NAME¶
ii - irc it or irc improved
DESCRIPTION¶
ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client. It creates an
irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every
directory a FIFO file (in) and normal file (out) is placed. This will be for
example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/. The in file is used to communicate with the
servers and the out files includes the server messages. For every channel and
every nick name there will be new in and out files. The basic idea of this is
to be able to communicate with an IRC server with basic command line tools.
For example if you will join a channel just do echo "/j #channel"
> in and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out file.
SYNOPSIS¶
ii <-s servername> [-p port] [-k
environment variable] [-i prefix] [-n
nickname] [-f realname] <-u sockname>
OPTIONS¶
- -s servername
- server to connect to, for example: irc.freenode.net
- -u sockname
- connect to a UNIX domain socket instead of directly to a server.
- -p port
- lets you override the default port (6667)
- -k environment variable
- lets you specify an environment variable that contains your IRC password,
e.g. IIPASS="foobar" ii -k IIPASS. This is done in order to
prevent other users from eavesdropping the server password via the process
list.
- -i prefix
- lets you override the default irc path (~/irc)
- -n nickname
- lets you override the default nick ($USER)
- -f realname
- lets you specify your real name associated with your nick
DIRECTORIES¶
- ~/irc
- In this directory the irc tree will be created. In this directory you will
find a directory for your server (default: irc.freenode.net) in which the
FIFO and the output file will be stored. If you join a channel a new
directory with the name of the channel will be created in the
~/irc/$servername/ directory.
COMMANDS¶
- /a [<message>]
- mark yourself as away
- /j #channel/nickname [<message>]
- join a channel or open private conversation with user
- /l [reason]
- leave a channel or query
- /n nick
- change the nick name
- /q [reason]
- quit ii
- /t topic
- set the topic of a channel
RAW COMMANDS¶
Everything which is not a command will be posted into the channel or to the
server. So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in RFC#1459 to the
server in FIFO.
SSL PROTOCOL SUPPORT¶
For TLS/SSL protocol support you can connect to a local tunnel, for example with
stunnel or socat.
Subscribe to the mailinglist and write to dev (at) suckless (dot) org for
suggestions, fixes, etc.
AUTHORS¶
ii engineers, see LICENSE file
BUGS¶
Please report them!
