IRC Cheat Sheet

[L4570N3]

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IA Page: https://duck.co/ia/view/irc_cheat_sheet

[mintsoft]

@namandistro Thanks for this! Sorry it's taken a while to get to.

One thing that's just stood out to me at first glance is that I thought all commands were prefixed with / not $. I.e /nick mintsoft would change my nick not $nick mintsoft ?

[L4570N3]

@mintsoft All those command are the terminal one and i saw the git command starts with $ so i thought that symbol will make sense rather than this /

[mintsoft]

@namandistro Ah, I see what the confusion is here. The $ on the git ones is used to indicate that it's a shell command and that it should be executed as such (this is a fairly common thing within the *nix sphere).

When you say "terminal ones" do you mean within a specific IRC client?

[L4570N3]

@mintsoft This command varies from client to client some gives us god gui some ask directly the channel name i made a cheat sheet to give all the command we can use from our shell to access it... So this are the basic commands you need to use for IRC from telnet a short video where you can understand what i am talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ81n_0M63g&noredirect=1

[mintsoft]

AH I see, I didn't realise it was essentially telnet. Other IRC clients I've used always require / infront of commands. Either way, I'm not sure if $ is right for this.

@moollaza @jagtalon @MrChrisW @mattr555 Any opinions?

[L4570N3]

Ya, But that thing depends on client to client but as default all this command will be used at backend...

[MrChrisW]

@mintsoft I tend to agree with using the forward-slash format.

@namandistro I understand what you're saying, the forward slash standard is based on the client-side and not directly implemented nor enforced by the IRC protocol.

However its become the standard of almost all IRC clients (GUI and CLI), using the / to interpret a command and send a raw command to the IRC server.

You'll also find this (forward slash) mentioned on any other help guides online.

• http:https://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-commands.html
• http:https://web.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/obj2/irc-cmds.html

Therefore I think its appropriate to use / here as oppose to $.

On a side note, I don't think the people using telnet or a raw socket connection to an IRC server would necessarily need a CheatSheet 😄

[mintsoft]

I suppose a compromise would be to not have anything at the start of each command, I.e. nick mint?

[L4570N3]

So @MrChrisW and @mintsoft What is the final recommendation is hould use $ or /. ?

[mintsoft]

@namandistro I think /

[L4570N3]

@mintsoft i made the recommended changes

[moollaza]

LGTM 👍

[moollaza]

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[moollaza]

@namandistro @sagarhani congrats! It's live: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=irc+cheat+sheet&t=ffab&ia=cheatsheet

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