This is a IRC client written in BASH

Usage:

[-h hostname] [-p port] [-n nick] [-x password] [-f configfile]  [-y logging YES/NO]  [-u log file] [-v]
i also intergrated commands to talk a bot (if you own one)
[-l bot pass] [-k bot nick] [-j bot op chan]

You can set the options in 3 ways:
from commandline as shown above
create a config file (.bashirc) and set the variables there.
or edit the irc-bash script and change the options at the top of the file

Features

Ping

when the sever pings the client a ✓ is displayed to show you that connection is still active

autojoin

If you get kicked from the channel the client will auto join for you

Desktop notifications

This client will use notify-send to inform you of:
being kicked
joining rooms
when your name is mentioned in a channel

Logging

You can choose to log the chat stream to a file, in a nice grep'able format
$ cat $LOGfile | grep #nixheads>
will find all chat logs from the channel #nixheads 
the format is  <$USER@$CHANNEL> $TEXT

Themes

Using the $IRC_PREFIX variable you can input formatting for your stream
IRC_PREFIX=(
    "\e[0m\e[4m\e[1m\e[31m::^ERROR"
    "\e[0m\e[24m\e[22m\e[0;92m\e[30m::(^<[^@]*@[^#])"
    "\e[0m::^<"
    "\e[0m::^->"
    "\e[0m\e[24m\e[22m\e[40m\e[1;97m::(.*)"
)

here is an example: If you dont know what this means, go read on how printf sets colours.

Multiple channels

use the chan variable to set as many channels as you want to join on login
chans=( "#channel1", "#channel2", "#channel3 )

Boot scripting

if you need to run commands on boot you can add them to the $IRC_SCRIPT var
i like to set mine to
IRC_SCRIPT=":s #nixheads"
to set my input to channel #nixheads

Timestamp for incoming messages

Uses <Hour:Min:Sec> format

Input

Ctrl + C will not kill the client nor will it print ^C
Tab will not auto complete file/dir listings but will insert a tab instead

Commands

This client uses commands, starting with ':' and followed by the command letter i.e :a

Imgur links

• :i - will send a random link from imgur to the current set channel
• :r - reads lines from file and sends to channel using sed format :r 32p /home/user/foobar # will read line 32 from file foobar in the users home dir
• :k - kick user from channel (need to be op) :k username
• :m - send a message to a channel or user :m #channel message to send
• :l - part from channel :l #channel
• :j - join channel :j #channel
• :s - sets channel to the active stream so you can send messages without using :m each time :s #channel
• :a - sends an action command, the same as /me on other clients :a message to send
• :p - sends a command to the bot, (if your bot supports) currently a ping
• :z - sends a message to the bot, command written on bot, tells the bot to identify with nickserv
• :q - tells the client to quit from server and exit client

Keybinds

• Ctrl + L - If someone sends a mesage to you while your typing and it interfers with your input this will redraw the line for you
• Ctrl + D - If you decide what you have typed isnt what you want to send, this will delete all the text in you input line