1Irssi(1) General Commands Manual Irssi(1)
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6 Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX
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9 irssi [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h
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13 Irssi is a modular Internet Relay Chat client. It is highly extensible
14 and very secure. Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many
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18 --config=FILE
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22 PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi. Default is ~/.irssi
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24 -c, --connect=SERVER
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46 display the version of Irssi.
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52 Irssi has been supplied with a huge amount of documentation. Check
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56 /etc/irssi.conf
57 Global configuration file
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60 Personal configuration file
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63 Automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed
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67 Default irssi theme
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70 Logged messages in away status
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72 /usr/share/irssi/help/
73 Directory including many help files
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75 /usr/share/irssi/scripts/
76 Global scripts directory
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82 Default scripts directory
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89 File containing a list of commands to execute on startup
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92 Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen <cras@irssi.org>
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94 This manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen <stevee@alphanet.ch> and
95 Stefan Tomanek <stefan@pico.ruhr.de>
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