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

Bouncers/Relays

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