bionic (1) ii.1.gz

NAME

       ii - irc it or irc improved

DESCRIPTION

       ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client.  It creates an irc directory tree with server,
       channel and nick name directories.  In every directory a FIFO file (in) and  and  normal  file  (out)  is
       placed.  This  will  be for example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/.  The in file is used to communicate with the
       servers and the out files includes the server messages. For every channel and every nick name there  will
       be  new  in  and  out files.  The basic idea of this is to be able to communicate with an IRC server with
       basic command line tools.  For example if you will join a channel just do echo "/j #channel" > in and  ii
       creates a new channel directory with in and out file.

SYNOPSIS

       ii [-s servername] [-p port] [-k environmentvariable] [-i prefix] [-n nickname] [-f realname]

OPTIONS

       -s servername
              lets you override the default servername (irc.freenode.net)

       -p port
              lets you override the default port (6667)

       -k environment variable
              lets  you specify an environment variable that contains your IRC password, e.g. IIPASS="foobar" ii
              -k FOOBAR.  This is done in order to prevent other users from eavesdropping  the  server  password
              via the process list.

       -i prefix
              lets you override the default irc path (~/irc)

       -n nickname
              lets you override the default nick ($USER)

       -f realname
              lets you specify your real name associated with your nick

DIRECTORIES

       ~/irc  In  this  directory  the irc tree will be created. In this directory you will find a directory for
              your server (default: irc.freenode.net) in which the FIFO and the output file will be stored.   If
              you  join  a  channel  a  new  directory  with  the  name  of  the  channel will be created in the
              ~/irc/$servername/ directory.

COMMANDS

       /a [<message>]
              mark yourself as away

       /j #channel/nickname [<message>]
              join a channel or open private conversation with user

       /l #channel/nickname
              leave a channel or query

       /n nick
              change the nick name

       /t topic
              set the topic of a channel

       Everything which is not a command will simply be posted into the channel or to the server.
              So if you need /who just write /WHO as described in the RFC to the server in FIFO.

       out file usage
              Write wrappers, pagers or use your tools of  choice  to  display  the  out  file  contents  (loco,
              multitail, etc.).

CONTACT

       Write to ii (at) modprobe (dot) de for suggestions, fixes, 7|-|>< ;) etc.

AUTHORS

       Copyright © 2005-2006 by Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam (at) gmail (dot) com> and Copyright © 2005-2008 by Nico
       Golde <nico (at) ngolde (dot) de>

SEE ALSO

       echo(1), tail(1),

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