mribeiro/irc repository overview

⁠IRC Client

This is a container based IRC client setup.

What we are currently using:

• tmux for terminal multiplexing
• irssi as client

⁠Setup

We use docker to make the setup simpler, so you will not have to install all the dependencies manually.

All you have to do is:

• Install docker⁠
• Add your local user to docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker <your_user>

• Pull image (from Hub⁠):

docker pull mribeiro/irc

or build locally using this repo (which is way much cooler):

make build-image

⁠Usage:

You can use the simple run.sh script that we have provided:

./run.sh <nick> <server>

# To connect as mmr into irc.freenode.net
./run.sh mmr irc.freenode.net

Or you can run the container by hand, just like you would run the irssi command.

Examples:

# Show irssi help
docker run -i --rm mribeiro/irc --help

# Connect to freenode as mmr
docker run -i --rm mribeiro/irc -n mmr -c irc.freenode.net