1CENTERIM(1) General Commands Manual CENTERIM(1)
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6 centerim - a text mode based IM client for Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris,
7 MacOS X and possibly, other Unices. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN,
8 Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are now supported. Internal LiveJournal
9 client and RSS reader are also provided.
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13 centerim [ option ] ...
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17 This manual page documents briefly the centerim command.
18 centerim is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. Cur‐
20 rently ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols
21 are supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages,
22 URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for users (includ‐
23 ing extended "whitepages search"), view users' details, maintain your
24 contact list directly from the program (including non-icq contacts),
25 view the messages history, register a new UIN and update your details,
26 be informed on receiving email messages, automatically set away after
27 the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and have your own
28 ignore, visible and invisible lists. It can also associate events with
29 sounds, add events to the outgoing queue from command line, define
30 external event processing actions (like events auto-forwarding or
31 elizatalk), has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and allows to
32 arrange contacts into groups.
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36 -a, --ascii
37 use ascii characters to draw lines and boxes
38 -h, --help
40 display command line usage
41 -v, --version
43 show the program version info
44 -b, --basedir <directory>
46 specify another base directory; useful for having several IM
47 identities under the same UNIX account
48 -B, --bind <hostname/ip>
50 tells centerim to use the specified IP address for outgoing con‐
51 nections
52 -B, --no-xtitles
54 disable title changing in xterm or screen
55 -o, --offline
57 start with all protocols set offline
58 The following commands are used to put events to the outgoing queue
61 from the command line. If centerim is already running they're to be
62 sent immediately, otherwise they will be sent as soon as you go on-
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64 -s, --send <event type>
68 This parameter specifies the type of event you want to send.
69 Currently only "msg", "url" and "sms" are supported.
70 -p, --proto <protocol type>
72 This one specifies to which IM network the destination contact
73 belongs. Can be "icq", "yahoo", "aim", "irc", "jab", "msn", "gg"
74 or "lj".
75 -t, --to <nickname or UIN>
77 With this one you specify nickname or UIN of the destination
78 contact. For icq it's possible to specify 0 to send events to
79 yourself. Only SMSes are known to be possible to be sent to one‐
80 self though.
81 -n, --number <phone number>
83 Using this parameter you can send SMSes to any mobile numbers
84 through the ICQ network.
85 The message text is read from the standard input, so use pipes in shell
88 to pass it. For example, you can say "hi" to me through the ICQ network
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90 $ echo "hi" | centerim -s msg -p icq -t 17502151
92 In case you want to send an URL, the URL itself and its description are
94 separated with a newline character the following way:
95 $ echo -e "http://thekonst.net/\nMy modest homepage." | cen‐
97 terim -s url -p icq -t 17502151
98 Please note, that all three parameters are required in order to queue
100 an event.
101 Finally, a small example of sending SMSes:
103 $ echo "sms test" | centerim -s sms -n 1234567890
105 It's also possible to change your current status on a particular IM
108 network with the following command line option.
109 -S, --status <status letter>
112 The argument parameter is a letter which indicates which status
113 is to be set: o (Online), _ (Offline), a (Away), d (Don't dis‐
114 turb), n (N/A), c (Occupied), f (Free for chat), i (Invisible)
115 -p or --proto <protocol name>
117 Exactly the same like it was described for the previous command.
118 Examples:
121 $ centerim -S _ -p icq
123 This will set the icq status to offline. In other words, it'll be dis‐
125 connected immediately.
126 $ centerim -S a -p yahoo
128 And this command will switch your yahoo status to away.
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134 centerim 4.22.1
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138 Report any bugs at our Bugzilla site at http://bugzilla.centerim.org/
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142 This page and centerim was originally written by Konstantin Klyagin.
143 Currently, several people are maintaining this software project.
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147 http://www.centerim.org/
148 April 2, 2007 CENTERIM(1)