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NAME

6       kirc - KISS for IRC
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SYNOPSIS

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

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‐
15       mands. All highlighted text and color can be controlled with  ANSI  es‐
16       cape sequences.
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OPTIONS

19       -s server
20              Overrides the default host (irc.libera.chat)
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22       -p port
23              Overrides the default port (6697)
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26              Specifies the channel(s) to JOIN (delimited by "," or "|")
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28       -n nick
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31       -r real
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37       -k pass
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40       -a auth
41              Specifies SASL PLAIN mechanism authentication token
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43       -e     Specifies SASL EXTERNAL mechanism
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45       -x     Reads  from  STDIN and passes each line (delimited by "\n") as a
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48       -v     Prints the version information to stderr, then exits
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50       -V     Increases verbosity. Causes raw IRC messages to be printed  when
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COMMANDS

54       /<command>
55              Send message to IRC host (e.g. /JOIN, /PART, /WHOIS, etc.)
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57       /#<channel>
58              Set default message channel to <channel>
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61              Send  PRIVMSG  to  default message channel with <message> as the
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64       @<channel|nick> <message>
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67       @@<channel|nick> <message>
68              Send CTCP ACTION containing <message> to specified <channel>  or
69              <nick>  (if  no  <channel> or <nick> is specified, the <message>
70              will be sent to the default message channel)
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AUTHOR

73       Michael Czigler <michaelczigler at icloud dot com>
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BUGS

76       Please report them!
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