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CENTERIM(1) | General Commands Manual | CENTERIM(1) |
NAME¶
centerim - a text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris, MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal LiveJournal client and RSS reader are also provided.SYNOPSIS¶
centerim [ option ] ...DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the centerim command. centerim is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. Currently ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for users (including extended "whitepages search"), view users' details, maintain your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq contacts), view the messages history, register a new UIN and update your details, be informed on receiving email messages, automatically set away after the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and have your own ignore, visible and invisible lists. It can also associate events with sounds, add events to the outgoing queue from command line, define external event processing actions (like events auto-forwarding or elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and allows to arrange contacts into groups.OPTIONS¶
- -a, --ascii
- use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes
- -h, --help
- display command line usage
- -v, --version
- show the program version info
- -b, --basedir <directory>
- specify another base directory; useful for having several IM identities under the same UNIX account
- -B, --bind <hostname/ip>
- tells centerim to use the specified IP address for outgoing connections
- -B, --no-xtitles
- disable title changing in xterm or screen
- -o, --offline
- start with all protocols set offline
- -s, --send <event type>
- This parameter specifies the type of event you want to send. Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.
- -p, --proto <protocol type>
- This one specifies to which IM network the destination contact belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg" or "lj".
- -t, --to <nickname or UIN>
- With this one you specify nickname or UIN of the destination contact. For icq it's possible to specify 0 to send events to yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be sent to oneself though.
- -n, --number <phone number>
- Using this parameter you can send SMSes to any mobile
numbers through the ICQ network.
$ echo "hi" | centerim -s msg -p icq -t 17502151
$ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\nMy modest homepage." | centerim -s url -p icq -t 17502151
$ echo "sms test" | centerim -s sms -n 1234567890
- -S, --status <status letter>
- The argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status is to be set: o (Online), _ (Offline), a (Away), d (Don't disturb), n (N/A), c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i (Invisible)
- -p or --proto <protocol name>
- Exactly the same like it was described for the previous
command.
$ centerim -S _ -p icq
$ centerim -S a -p yahoo
VERSION¶
centerim 4.22.1BUG REPORT¶
Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/AUTHOR¶
This page and centerim was originally written by Konstantin Klyagin. Currently, several people are maintaining this software project.WEB¶
http://www.centerim.org/April 2, 2007 |