KIRC(1)

NAME
kirc - KISS for IRC

SYNOPSIS
kirc [-s server] [-p port] [-n nick] [-c chan] ...

DESCRIPTION
kirc is an extremely fast and simple IRC client designed with portability in mind. This client reads from STDIN and prints to STDOUT, so all traffic can multiplexed and text parsed or modified using external commands. All highlighted text and color can be controlled with ANSI escape sequences.

OPTIONS

-s server
    Overrides the default host (irc.libera.chat)

-p port
    Overrides the default port (6697)

-c chan
    Specifies the channel(s) to JOIN (delimited by "," or "|")

-n nick
    Specifies the NICK connection nickname

-r real
    Specifies the users real name

-u user
    Specifies the USER connection username

-k pass
    Specifies the PASS connection password

-a auth
    Specifies SASL PLAIN mechanism authentication token

-D dir
    Specifies DCC download directory

-o logfile
    Specifies logfile

-4  Connect via ipv4 only

-6  Connect via ipv6 only

-d  Toggle DCC support

-f  Filter ansi color codes

-e  Specifies SASL EXTERNAL mechanism

-x  Reads from STDIN and passes each line (delimited by "\n") as a command to the IRC server after the initial connection.

-v  Prints the version information to stderr, then exits

-V  Increases verbosity. Causes raw IRC messages to be printed when sent or received.

COMMANDS

/<command>
    Send message to IRC host (e.g. /JOIN, /PART, /WHOIS, etc.)

/query <nick>
    Set privmsg target. Useful when sending privmsg's to a nick instead of a chan.

// <text>
    Send text to current channel (useful when sending '@' and '/', usually to bots)

/#<channel>
    Set default message channel to <channel>

<message>
    Send PRIVMSG to default message channel with <message> as the content

@<channel|nick> <message>
    Send <message> to specified <channel> or <nick>

/action<channel|nick> <message>
    Send CTCP ACTION containing <message> to specified <channel> or <nick> (if no <channel> or <nick> is specified, the <message> will be sent to the default message channel)

AUTHOR
Michael Czigler <michaelczigler at icloud dot com>

BUGS
Please report them!