IRC clients

This is a compilation of IRC clients. Many of these (marked with †) are available on acidburn

Bouncers/Relays

• WeeChat †
• ZNC †

Curses-based

• WeeChat †
• BitchX
• IrcII †
• irssi †

CLI-based

• ii - a filesystem-based irc client †
• a simple script using netcat and expect:

#!/bin/bash
nik=clf$RANDOM
sr=localhost
prt=1337
expect -c "set timeout -1
	spawn nc $sr $prt
	set send_human {.1 .2 1 .2 1}
	expect AUTH*\n 
	send -h \"user $nik * * :$nik commandlinefu\nnick $nik\n\"
	interact -o -re (PING.:)(.*\$) {send \"PONG :\$interact_out(2,string)\"}"

GUI

• HexChat
• mIRC