# IRC Commands - Neırssi 1.3 documentation

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# IRC Commands

accept | Allows you to specify who you want to receive private messages and notices from while you have callerid enabled. …
action | Sends an action emote to a nickname or a channel.
admin | Displays the administrative details of a server.
away | Marks yourself as ‘away’; this method is used to inform people that you are not paying attention to your screen. …
ban | Adds one or more bans to a channel.
ctcp | Sends a CTCP request towards the given target nickname or channel.
dcc | The DCC protocol is used to initiate client-to-client chat connections and file transfers. …
deop | Removes the channel operator privileges from the given nicknames; you may use the wildcard character ‘*’ in a nickname.
devoice | Removes the channel voice privileges from the given nicknames; you may use the wildcard character ‘*’ in a nickname. …
die | Terminates the IRC server; this command is reserved for IRC operators.
hash | This is an ancient command that is no longer used; if you on an IRC server that supports this command, please contact us to we can update the documentation.
info | Displays information about the IRC server software.
invite | Invites the specified nick to a channel.
ison | Displays whether the specified nicknames are online.
kick | Removes the given nicknames from the specified channel; this command is typically used to remove troublemakers, flooders or people otherwise making a nuisance of themselves.
kickban | Removes and then bans the given nicknames from the specified channel.
kill | Terminates a nickname’s connection from the network; this command is reserved for IRC operators. …
knock | Sends an invitation request to the channel operators of the target channel; this command may not work on all IRC servers. …
knockout | Removes and then bans the given nicknames from the active channel; the ban will be automatically lifted after the specified time. …
links | Displays the links between an IRC server and its connections.
list | Displays the channel names that match your request; requesting all channels may cause the server to disconnect you for flooding.
lusers | Displays the user statistics of the active or remote server. …
map | Displays the network map of an IRC network; this command is usually reserved for IRC operators and does not work on all servers.
me | Sends an action emote to the active nickname or channel.
mircdcc | After establishing a DCC CHAT connection that you initiated, you might encounter some protocol issues if the target is using mIRC. …
mode | Modifies the user or channel modes for which you are privileged to modify. …
motd | Displays the welcome message of an IRC server.
nctcp | Sends a CTCP reply to a nickname or channel; you can provide multiple targets by separating them with a comma.
netsplit | Displays some information about users who are currently lost in one or more net splits.
nick | Changes your nickname on the active server.
notice | Sends a notice to the target nickname or channel; these are often used in automated bots or scripts. …
notify | Notifies you when a nickname or users matching a host on the notification list comes online or offline.
op | Grants the channel operator privileges to the given nicknames; you may use the wildcard character ‘*’ in a nickname.
oper | Grants you the IRC operator status.
part | Leaves the given channels.
ping | Sends a CTCP PING request to a nickname or a channel; this is used to find out the latency on the network.
quote | Sends raw data to the server without any parsing.
rehash | Reloads the configuration of the IRC server you are are connected to; this command is restricted to IRC operators.
restart | Restarts the active IRC server; this command is restricted to IRC administrators.
sconnect | Connect a server to the IRC network; this command is restricted to IRC operators.
server | Displays, adds, modifies or removes the network configuration of IRC servers. …
servlist | List the network services currently present on the IRC network.
silence | Manages the server side ignore list; users or hostnames that match an entry on the list are not able to send you any messages or invites. …
squery | /SQUERY sends a query to the specified service.
squit | Disconnects a server from the IRC network; this command is restricted to IRC operators.
stats | Displays statistics from the IRC server; some statistics require you to have IRC operators privileges and might differ between IRC networks. …
time | Displays the local time of a server or the server the target user is connected to.
topic | Displays or modifies the topic of a channel.
trace | Displays the list of servers and users connects to a server, or a list of the servers between yourself and the target user. …
ts | Displays a list of the channels you are on and their topics.
unban | Removes one or more bans from a channel.
unnotify | Removes an entry from the notify list.
unsilence | Removes an entry from the silence list. This command does not work on all IRC networks.
userhost | Displays the user@host for the given nicknames; some common added attributes are ‘*’ to identify an IRC operator, ‘-’ and ‘+’ to indicate whether the nickname is AWAY or available.
ver | Send a CTCP VERION request to the target nickname, channel or to all the users on the channel.
version | Displays the version and compatibility parameters of the given server, or for the server the target nickname is on.
voice | Grants the channel voice privileges to the given nicknames; you may use the wildcard character ‘*’ in a nickname.
wait | Waits the specified amount of milliseconds before sending the next command to the server.
wall | Sends a message to all channel operators. If the server doesn’t support WALLCHOPS or STATUSMSG it will send a notice to each channel operator individually.
wallops | Sends a network wide message to all the users which have the usermode ‘w’ enabled; this command is restricted to IRC operators.
who | Displays information about users in the specified channel. If you specify a filter, all the users whose nick, userhost or realname matches the filter will be returned. …
whois | Displays information about users in the specified channel; you may give the same nickname as the argument twice to also query the idle time. …
whowas | Displays historical user information.