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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 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
environmentvariable] [-i prefix] [-n
nickname] [-f realname]
OPTIONS¶
- -s servername
- lets you override the default servername (irc.freenode.net)
- -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 FOOBAR. 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 #channel/nickname
- leave a channel or query
- /n nick
- change the nick name
- /t topic
- set the topic of a channel
- Everything which is not a command will simply be posted into the channel
or to the server.
- So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in the RFC to the server
in FIFO.
- out file usage
- Write wrappers, pagers or use your tools of choice to display the out file
contents (loco, multitail, etc.).
- Write to ii (at) modprobe (dot) de for suggestions, fixes, 7|-|>< ;)
etc.
AUTHORS¶
Copyright © 2005-2006 by Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam (at) gmail (dot)
com> and Copyright © 2005-2008 by Nico Golde <nico (at) ngolde
(dot) de>