sic is a simple irc client by suckless community, written in less than 250 lines of C code.

it reads commands and messages from stdio and prints messages into stdout, making suitable for using in scripts, or where quick access to irc needed.

sic doesn't support SSL/TLS natively  

!!!Installation 

    $ doas pkg_add sic


!!!Usage

unlike most common clients, ##STARTCODEBLOCK##
/command##ENDCODEBLOCK##
s doesn't work and they are used with ##STARTCODEBLOCK##
:command##ENDCODEBLOCK##


for joining a channel

    :j #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    for leaving a channel
    :l #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    sending a message to ##STARTCODEBLOCK##
    nick##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    :m nick message##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    setting target (default place which messages are sent to)
    :s #channel##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    :s nick##ENDCODEBLOCK##
    !!!examples
    $ sic -h irc.ircnow.org -n ircuser