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PROFANITY(1) General Commands Manual PROFANITY(1)

NAME

Profanity - a simple console based XMPP chat client.

SYNOPSIS

profanity [-vh] [-l level] [-a account]

DESCRIPTION

Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. Its emphasis is on having a simple and configurable command driven UI, see the homepage at:

<http://www.profanity.im>

OPTIONS

-v, --version
Show version and build information.
-h, --help
Show help on command line arguments.
-a, --account ACCOUNT
Auto connect to an account on startup, ACCOUNT must be an existing account.
-l, --log LEVEL
Set the logging level, LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR.

USING PROFANITY

The user guide can be found at <http://www.profanity.im/userguide.html>.

SEE ALSO

Profanity itself has a lot of built-in help. Check the /help command for more information. Type "/help help" for information on how to use help itself.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration for Profanity is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on commands for configuring Profanity can be found at <http://www.profanity.im/reference.html>.

BUGS

Bugs can either be reported by raising an issue at the Github issue tracker:

<https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/issues>

or to the mailing list at:

<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/profanitydev>

or by sending a mail directly to:

<boothj5web@gmail.com>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2018 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHORS/CREDITS

Profanity was written by James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com> with many contributions from others, see the full list at: <https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/graphs/contributors>
2018-10-20 Profanity XMPP client