irssi - Man Page
a modular IRC client for UNIX
Examples (TL;DR)
- Open Irssi and connect to a server with a nickname:
irssi -n nickname -c irc.example.com - Open Irssi and connect with a specific server on a given port:
irssi -c irc.example.com -p port - Display help:
irssi --help - Join a channel:
/join #channelname - Change active window (starts at 1):
/win window_number - Exit the application cleanly and quitting any server(s):
/quit
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
See Also
Irssi has a solid amount of documentation available; check /HELP or look online at https://irssi.org
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.