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, ##STARTCODEBLOCK## /command##ENDCODEBLOCK## s doesn't work and they are used with ##STARTCODEBLOCK## :command##ENDCODEBLOCK##

for joining a channel

:j #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
for leaving a channel
:l #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
sending a message to ##STARTCODEBLOCK##
nick##ENDCODEBLOCK##
:m nick message##ENDCODEBLOCK##
setting target (default place which messages are sent to)
:s #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
:s nick##ENDCODEBLOCK##
!!!examples
$ sic -h irc.ircnow.org -n ircuser