Irssi(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Irssi — a modular IRC client for UNIX, aka the loml of terminal chat apps 🫶

(this page is Irssi(1), from the General Commands Manual — yes bestie you're in the right place 💅)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

irssi [--config=PATH] [--home=PATH] [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

that's the whole vibe. run it, pass it some flags, boom — you're chatting 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so Irssi is a modular Internet Relay Chat client and she is that girl. highly extensible, very secure, no cap. 💅

she's a fullscreen, termcap based client</> with so many features it's giving main character energy, and she's easily extensible through scripts and modules. literally obsessed. 🔥

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --config=FILE — use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config, iykyk 💖
• --home=PATH — PATH tells Irssi where its home directory is; 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, for when you're in your antisocial era 🙈
• -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 🫶

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Irssi has a solid amount of documentation available, bestie — check /HELP or look online at https://irssi.org 🌐✨

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.irssi/config — personal configuration file, your little home 🏡
• ~/.irssi/config.autosave — automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed externally 😭 (she backs herself up, queen behaviour)
• ~/.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 🚀

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👑 AUTHORS/CREDITS 👑

Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen; this manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen, Stefan Tomanek, Geert Hauwaerts. absolute icons, all of them 💜💅

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fr fr that's the whole page — go forth and irssi, bestie 🦋

💖 Irssi IRC client · June 2015 · Irssi(1) 💖 — mwah, that's the sign-off, no cap 😭🎀