Commands are the way for interacting with the client. They allow various tasks to be done - interacting with the remote server, changing client's user interface (including, but not limited to managing windows and changing key bindings), programming the client and much more.
Below is a list of all of the commands grouped by the domain they operate in.
| invite | invite a person to a channel |
| join | join a channel |
| kick | forcibly remove a person from a channel |
| knock | send a message to a channel asking to invite you |
| me | perform an action sent to a channel |
| mode | change channel modes |
| names | retrieve a list of people attending a channel |
| part | leave a channel |
| topic | set achannel's topic |
| who | retrieve information about a channel or a person |
| rping | check a round-trip-time between you and an Undernet server |
| servlist | read a list of IRCnet services |
| squery | query an IRCnet service |
| silence | add or remove a server-side ignore |
| uping | check a round-trip time between you and an Undernet server |
| userip | retrieve user's IP address on Undernet and Hybrid servers |
| usrip | retrieve user's IP address in old hybrid servers |
| admin | retrieve administrative whereabouts about a server |
| info | retrieve information about an irc server |
| lusers | see how many users are connected to the network |
| map | see a topological map of connected servers |
| motd | see the Message Of The Day |
| stats | ask a server for general purpose information |
| time | see system time of given server |
| trace | retrieve information about a route between you and specified server and provide a list of local clients |
| version | retrieve server's irc server software version |
| away | mark yourself away |
| describe | send an action to an arbitrary target |
| ison | check whether people are online in an efficient way |
| links | retrieve a list of all servers |
| list | list all channels on a network |
| nick | change your nick |
| notify | client interface to the /ison command |
| quote | send a raw message to an irc server |
| userhost | retrieve user's hostname |
| wallchops | send a message to channel's operators |
| whois | retrieve detailed information about a user |
| whowas | retrieve whois information about a user that has already left the server |
| break | break out from a loop |
| continue | move to the next iteration of a loop |
| do | a loop that's executed at least once |
| fec | iterate all characters in a string |
| fe | iterate all words in a string |
| for | general purpose loop |
| foreach | iterate between items in a structure |
| if | conditional statement |
| repeat | repeat given command or block an arbitrary number of times |
| return | end a procedure and return a value |
| switch | conditional statement for multiple possible values |
| unless | inverse conditional statement |
| until | execute a loop until a condition is true |
| while | execute a loop as long as a condition is true |
| assign | assign a value to a variable |
| beep | send ^G to the terminal |
| bless | extend the scope of a block |
| botmode | detach a client operating in “dumb mode” into the background |
| comment | insert a comment to script's source |
| defer | execute a command when the client is idle |
| dump | delete your aliases, assigns and/or ons |
| echo | echo some text to a terminal |
| eval | expand and execute a string |
| flush | |
| input | display an input prompt to the user |
| input_char | display an input prompt for a single character |
| load | load a script from a file |
| local | create a local variable |
| package | “group” your assigns, aliases and similar with a common package name |
| parsekey | execute a bind-specific function |
| pause | perform a non-blocking sleep |
| pop | remove last word of a variable |
| pretend | “pretend” some text was received from a remote server |
| push | append a word to the variable |
| queue | schedule command(s) for later execution |
| redirect | send a copy of all output to given target |
| say | send text to the current channel |
| send | send text to current channel or query |
| sendline | send a line of text as it would be typed by the user in the input prompt |
| shift | remove the first word off of a variable |
| sleep | perform a blocking sleep |
| stack | store aliases, variables, ons and others in a stack |
| subpackage | create a branch in current package |
| timer | run a command or a block after some time had elapsed |
| type | simulate user keystrokes on the command line |
| unload | unload a script packaged by the package command |
| unshift | prepend a word to a variable |
| usleep | perform a blocking sleep for given number of microseconds |
| wait | wait for completion of a command |
| xecho | print some text with more control over where it will appear |
| xeval | execute a block in context of a window or a server |
| xquote | send raw text to an arbitrary server |
| xtype | simulare raw user keystrokes (without processing of binds |
| disconnect | close your connection with a server |
| hostname | get or set your hostname used when connecting to a server |
| ircname | alias for set realname |
| reconnect | disconnect from a server and connect again |
| server | connect to a server |
| bye | alias for /quit |
| cd | perform a chdir(2) call |
| channel | retrieve information about a channel or join one |
| clear | clear all text from the current window |
| encrypt | maintain a list of cipher keys with users or servers |
| exec | execute an external command |
| exit | alias for /quit |
| ignore | ignore messages from given hostmasks |
| lastlog | grep through lines previously sent to your screen |
| license | read a software license for the EPIC software |
| log | |
| mesg | display or set whether other system users can directly write to your terminal |
| note | |
| query | start a private conversation with a person |
| quit | exit your EPIC client |
| setenv | set an environment variable |
| unclear | display text that was once cleared |
| which | get a full path for a script in your LOAD_PATH |