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Irssi(1) General Commands Manual Irssi(1)

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

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

SEE ALSO

Irssi has a solid amount of documentation available; check /HELP or look online at http://www.irssi.org

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.

June 2015 Irssi IRC client