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Adding upstream version 2.23+dfsg.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
2025-06-21 08:03:52 +02:00

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"docbook/docbookx.dtd">
<refentry id='irk.8'>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>irk</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class='date'>Apr 30 2014</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='source'>irker</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='product'>irker</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='manual'>Commands</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>irk</refname>
<refpurpose>test program for irkerd</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>irk</command>
<arg><replaceable>target</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='opt'><replaceable>message text</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id='description'><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para><application>irk</application> is a simple test program for
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>irkerd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. It
will construct a simple JSON object and pass it to the daemon running
on localhost.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='options'><title>OPTIONS</title>
<para><application>irk</application> takes the following options:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>target</term>
<listitem><para>Which server and channel to join to announced the
message. If not prefixed with "irc:", it will prefix
"irc://chat.freenode.net/" to the argument before passing it directly
to irkerd. This argument is passed as the "to" parameter in the JSON
object.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>message</term>
<listitem><para>Which message to send to the target specified
above. If the string "-", the message will be read from standard
input, with newlines stripped.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='limitations'><title>LIMITATIONS</title>
<para><application>irk</application> has no commandline usage and may
be riddled with bugs.</para>
<para><application>irk</application> doesn't know how to talk to your
favorite VCS. You will generally want to use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>irkerhook</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
instead</para>
<para><application>irk</application> has also all the limitations of
<application>irkerd</application>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='see_also'><title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>irkerhook</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='authors'><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>Eric S. Raymond <email>esr@snark.thyrsus.com</email>. See the
project page at <ulink
url='http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker'>http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker</ulink>
for updates and other resources, including an installable repository
hook script.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>