---
name: "bip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bip"
version: "0.9.3-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bip"
---

# bip(1)

BIP IRC Proxy

## NAME

bip - BIP IRC Proxy

## SYNOPSIS

**bip** \[ **-n** \] \[ **-f** *config\_file* \] \[ **-s** *bipdir* \] \[ **-h** \]

## DESCRIPTION

BIP is an IRC Proxy

## OPTIONS

- **-n**

  Don't daemonize. Log into stderr.

- **-f** config\_file

  Use config\_file as the configuration file.  If no config file is given, bip will try to open ~/.bip/bip.conf.

- **-s** bipdir

  Set bip home directory to bipdir instead of $HOME/.bip. **bipdir** is the default parent directory for client certificate, configuration, logs, pid, oidentd.

- **-h**

  Help.

## SEE ALSO

bip.conf

## AUTHOR

Arnaud 'nohar' Cornet Loïc 'Kyoshiro' Gomez

Thanks to jj, YS and lafouine, for hanging around while we were coding.

Crypto shamelessly taken from Christophe 'sexy' Devine.