Author
Christopher Marshall (christopherlmarshall@yahoo.com)
Raw Notes on IRC
# common commnads
/nick
/join #channel
/msg nick hi
/notice nick hi
/notice #channel hi
/query nick
/dcc chat nick
/dcc send nick /etc/hostname
/dcc get nick
/part
/part #channel
/discon
/server irc.openprojects.net
/quit
/whois nick
/who
/invite nick #channel
# xchat and xchat-text seem like good clients.
# xchat-text has a clean text interface
# and good docs at /usr/doc/xchat
# also look at /usr/doc/linux-mini-HOWTO/IRC
# a script to monitor a channel using xchat-text
(
echo "/nick somenick"
echo "/server irc.openprojects.net"
sleep 60
echo "/join #slackware"
while true; do
sleep 100
done
) | xchat-text > log2.txt
# you can also log a live session like this:
xchat-text | tee log.txt
# start an xterm like this to turn off the annoying colors
xterm -cm &