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Sic

sic is a simple irc client by suckless community, written in less than 250 lines of C code. it reads commands and messages from stdio and prints messages into stdout, making suitable for using in scripts, or where quick access to irc needed. sic doesn't support SSL/TLS natively

Installation

$ doas pkg_add sic

Usage

unlike most common clients, /commands doesn't work and they are used with :command for joining a channel :j #channel

for leaving a channel :l #channel

sending a message to nick :m nick message

setting target (default place which messages are sent to) :s #channel :s nick

examples

$ sic -h irc.ircnow.org -n ircuser