1KIRC(1) General Commands Manual KIRC(1)
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6 kirc - KISS for IRC
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9 kirc [-s server] [-p port] [-n nick] [-c chan] ...
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12 kirc is an extremely fast and simple IRC client designed with portabil‐
13 ity in mind. This client reads from stdin and prints to stdout, so all
14 traffic can multiplexed and text parsed or modified using external com‐
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19 -s server
20 Overrides the default host (irc.libera.chat)
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23 Overrides the default port (6697)
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26 Specifies the channel(s) to JOIN (delimited by "," or "|")
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45 Specifies SASL PLAIN mechanism authentication token
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56 Send message to IRC host (e.g. /JOIN, /PART, /WHOIS, etc.)
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73 Michael Czigler <michaelczigler at icloud dot com>
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