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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