irssi(1)

irssi1

A modular irc client for unix

Usage

irssi [--config=PATH] [--home=PATH] [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

Overview

Irssi is a modular Internet Relay Chat client; it is highly extensible and very secure. Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many features, Irssi is easily extensible through scripts and modules.

Options

--config=FILE

use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config

--home=PATH

PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi; default is ~/.irssi

-c, --connect=SERVER

connect to SERVER

-w, --password=PASSWORD

use PASSWORD for authentication.

-p, --port=PORT

automatically connect to PORT on server.

-!, --noconnect

disable autoconnecting of servers

-n, --nick=NICKNAME

specify NICKNAME as your nick

-h, --hostname=HOSTNAME

use HOSTNAME for your irc session

-v, --version

display the version of Irssi

-?, --help

show a help message

Files

~/.irssi/config

personal configuration file

~/.irssi/config.autosave

automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed externally

~/.irssi/default.theme

default irssi theme

~/.irssi/away.log

logged messages in away status

~/.irssi/scripts/

default scripts directory

~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/

directory containing links to scripts that should be loaded automatically on startup

~/.irssi/startup

file containing a list of commands to execute on startup

Authors/credits

Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen; this manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen, Stefan Tomanek, Geert Hauwaerts.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0–7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10–13
  8. Arch

-! since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --config since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --connect since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --help since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --home since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --hostname since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --nick since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --noconnect since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --password since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --port since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --version since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -? since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -c since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -h since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -n since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -p since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -v since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -w since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

--dummy until Debian 8 (Jessie); --session until Debian 4.0 (Etch); --usage until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -d until Debian 8 (Jessie).

From irssi 1.4.5-6 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.