Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX

irssi [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

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.

--config=FILE

use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config.

--home=PATH

PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi. Default is ~/.irssi

--session=PATH

this option is here just for internal use. It is needed during an /UPGRADE. For more information see /help upgrade.

-c, --connect=SERVER

connects to SERVER

-w, --password=PASSWORD

use PASSWORD for authentification.

-p, --port=PORT

automatically connect to PORT on server.

-!, --noconnect

disables autoconnecting.

-n, --nick=NICKNAME

specify NICKNAME as your nick.

-h, --hostname=HOSTNAME

use HOSTNAME for your irc session.

-d, --dummy

use dummy terminal mode.

-v, --version

display the version of Irssi.

-?, --help

show a help message.

--usage

display brief usage message.

Irssi has been supplied with a huge amount of documentation. Check /help or look at the files contained by /usr/share/doc/irssi*

/etc/irssi.conf

Global configuration file

~/.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

/usr/share/irssi/help/

Directory including many help files

/usr/share/irssi/scripts/

Global scripts directory

/usr/share/irssi/themes/

Global themes directory

~/.irssi/scripts/

Default scripts directory

~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/

Directory containing links to scripts that should be loaded automatically on startup

Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen <cras@irssi.org> This manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen <stevee@alphanet.ch> and Stefan Tomanek <stefan@pico.ruhr.de>