irssi (1) Linux Manual Page
Irssi – a modular IRC client for UNIX
Synopsis
irssi [-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
- –config=FILE
- use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config.
- –home=PATH
- PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi. Default is ~/.irssi
- -c, –connect=SERVER
- connects to SERVER
- -w, –password=PASSWORD
- use PASSWORD for authentication.
- -p, –port=PORT
- automatically connect to PORT on server.
- -!, –noconnect
- disables autoconnecting.
- -n, –nick=NICKNAME
- specify NICKNAME as your nick.
- -h, –hostname=HOSTNAME
- use HOSTNAME for your irc session.
- -d, –dummy
- use dummy terminal mode.
- -v, –version
- display the version of Irssi.
- -?, –help
- show a help message.
See Also
Irssi has been supplied with a huge amount of documentation. Check /help or look at the files contained by /usr/share/doc/irssi*Files
- /etc/irssi.conf
- Global configuration file
- ~/.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
- /usr/share/irssi/help/
- Directory including many help files
- /usr/share/irssi/scripts/
- Global scripts directory
- /usr/share/irssi/themes/
- Global themes directory
- ~/.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 <cras [at] irssi.org>This manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen <stevee [at] alphanet.ch> and Stefan Tomanek <stefan [at] pico.ruhr.de>