Man1 - irssi.1

Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX

irssi [–config=PATH] [–home=PATH] [-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

*-c, –connect=*/SERVER/

connect to SERVER

*-w, –password=*/PASSWORD/

use PASSWORD for authentication.

*-p, –port=*/PORT/

automatically connect to PORT on server.

-!, –noconnect

disable autoconnecting of servers

*-n, –nick=*/NICKNAME/

specify NICKNAME as your nick

*-h, –hostname=*/HOSTNAME/

use HOSTNAME for your irc session

-v, –version

display the version of Irssi

-?, –help

show a help message

Irssi has a solid amount of documentation available; check /HELP or look online at https://irssi.org

~.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

~.irssi/scripts//

default scripts directory

~.irssi/scripts/autorun//

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

~.irssi/startup/

file containing a list of commands to execute on startup

Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen; this manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen, Stefan Tomanek, Geert Hauwaerts.