Section 1 · User commands

irssi.1

Package: irssi

Irssi

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
FILES
AUTHORS/CREDITS

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

**−−config=**FILE

use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config

**−−home=**PATH

PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi; default is ~/.irssi

**−c, −−connect=**SERVER

connect to SERVER

**−w, −−password=**PASSWORD

use PASSWORD for authentication.

**−p, −−port=**PORT

automatically connect to PORT on server.

−!, −−noconnect

disable autoconnecting of servers

**−n, −−nick=**NICKNAME

specify NICKNAME as your nick

**−h, −−hostname=**HOSTNAME

use HOSTNAME for your irc session

−v, −−version

display the version of Irssi

−?, −−help

show a help message

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.