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II(1) General Commands Manual II(1) NAME ii - irc it or irc improved SYNOPSIS ii -s host [-p port | -u sockname] [-i ircdir] [-n nickname] [-f real- name] [-k env_pass] 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. OPTIONS -s host server/host to connect to, for example: irc.freenode.net -p port lets you override the default port (6667) -u sockname connect to a UNIX domain socket instead of directly to a server. If set, the -p option will be ignored. -i ircdir 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 -k env_pass 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 pass- word via the process list. DIRECTORIES ~/irc In this directory the irc tree will be created. In this direc- tory 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, with the optional message as an away rea- son. /j #channel [password] join a #channel, with the optional password. /j nickname [message] open private conversation with user nickname and directly send the optional message. /l [reason] leave a channel or query, giving the optional reason message. /n nick change the nick name to nick. /q [reason] quit ii, giving the optional reason message. /t topic set the topic of a channel with topic. 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/TLS PROTOCOL SUPPORT For SSL/TLS protocol support you can connect to a local tunnel, for ex- ample with stunnel or socat. SEE ALSO echo(1), tail(1) ii-VERSION II(1)
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