BIP(1)

💖 BIP(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about bip from the General Commands Manual and honestly? she's iconic. 👑

✨ NAME ✨

bip — the BIP IRC Proxy. that's it, that's the whole name. short, sweet, mysterious, main character energy fr fr 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bip [ -n ] [ -f config_file ] [ -s bipdir ] [ -h ]

look at her. four little flags and she's ready to go. no cap, that's the whole vibe check. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, BIP is an IRC Proxy. that's the official word, and we're keeping it exactly like that because facts are facts, bestie. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's where it gets juicy. every single flag, no skips, no gatekeeping:

• -n — don't daemonize. logs go straight to stderr. so she stays in the foreground and tells you everything, lowkey clingy but in a helpful way 😭
• -f config_file — use config_file as the configuration file. and if you don't hand her one? she'll go looking for ~/.bip/bip.conf all on her own. independent queen. 💅
• -s bipdir — set the bip home directory to bipdir instead of $HOME/.bip. and jsyk, bipdir is the default parent directory for client certificate, configuration, logs, pid, and oidentd. so yeah, she's carrying a lot. iconic. 👑
• -h — help. she's not gonna leave you hanging. 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• bip.conf — go read it, iykyk 📖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Arnaud 'nohar' Cornet and Loïc 'Kyoshiro' Gomez — the legends themselves, we stan. 🫶

thanks to jj, YS and lafouine, for hanging around while we were coding. genuinely the realest ones, showing up just to vibe while the code happened. 🥹

Crypto shamelessly taken from Christophe 'sexy' Devine. shamelessly!! we said what we said 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie. written into the General Commands Manual on 10 October 2005 — yeah, she's been slaying since 2005 and she hasn't stopped. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋