GLIRC(1)

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💖 GLIRC(1) — the glow-up manual 💖

okay bestie, so this is glirc, from the General Commands Manual section of your local man pages, and I'm about to make you obsessed with it. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

Glirc — an IRC client. that's it, that's the name, she's simple and she's iconic. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glirc [--config=PATH] [--noconnect] [--version] [--full-version]
[--config-format] [--help] [network...]

like… that's the whole vibe. type glirc, optionally throw some flags at her, optionally name some networks, and you're in. 🫶

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Glirc is a fully-featured console IRC client. she's not doing the bare minimum, she's doing the most. her whole thing? giving you both the high-detail view AND the concise view of an IRC connection, because sometimes you want the whole lore and sometimes you just want the tea. 🍓

and the line editing?? literally unmatched. you get an advanced line-editing environment with:

  • syntax-highlighting ✨
  • multi-line buffering 💜
  • argument placeholders 🎀

it's giving "I read the docs and also I'm cute about it". periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -c, --config=PATH — use PATH instead of ~/.config/glirc/config. your config, your rules, your main character energy.
  • -!, --noconnect — disable autoconnecting. yes the short flag is literally -! and yes that's a serve. 🙈
  • -v, --version — print version information. the quick flex.
  • --full-version — show detailed version information. the full flex, no notes.
  • --config-format — show configuration file format. she's telling you exactly how she wants to be configured, bestie, listen.
  • -h, --help — show help message. when in doubt.
  • network — networks to connect to on startup. name them here and she'll just… go. 🔥

🦋 NOTES 🦋

Glirc has online documentation available inside with /help, and online at https://github.com/glguy/irc-core/wiki. so you have zero excuse to be confused, iykyk. 💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.config/glirc/config — configuration file. her whole personality lives here.
  • ~/.config/glirc/sts.cfg — Strict Transport Security state. the security receipts. 🔒

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's a sample simple configuration file, bestie. more detail is available at https://github.com/glguy/irc-core/wiki/Configuration-File:

defaults:
  nick: "glircuser"
  tls:  yes

servers:
  * name:     "libera"
    hostname: "irc.libera.chat"

  * name:     "oftc"
    hostname: "irc.oftc.net"

look at her. nick, tls, two whole servers, libera and oftc, hosted at irc.libera.chat and irc.oftc.net. clean, minimal, ate. 💅✨

heads up bestie: copy that config exactly — the indentation and the * bullets are doing real work, don't freestyle them. 🙈

and that's the whole page, no crumbs left. this was glirc IRC client, dated 2020-07-27, and it's from the GLIRC(1) manual — slay, bye, go connect to something. 👑💜

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