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