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 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  environment  variable] [-i prefix] [-n nickname] [-f realname] <-u
       sockname>

OPTIONS

       -s servername
              server to connect to, for example: irc.freenode.net

       -u sockname
              connect to a UNIX domain socket instead of directly to a server.

       -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  IIPASS.   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 [reason]
              leave a channel or query

       /n nick
              change the nick name

       /q [reason]
              quit ii

       /t topic
              set the topic of a channel

RAW COMMANDS

       Everything  which is not a command will be posted into the channel or to the server.  So if you need /who
       just write /WHO as described in RFC#1459 to the server in FIFO.

SSL PROTOCOL SUPPORT

       For TLS/SSL protocol support you can connect to a local tunnel, for example with stunnel or socat.

CONTACT

       Subscribe to the mailinglist and write to dev (at) suckless (dot) org for suggestions, fixes, etc.

AUTHORS

       ii engineers, see LICENSE file

SEE ALSO

       echo(1), tail(1)

BUGS

       Please report them!

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