I'm searching for a command like /names, but on the whole server. Is this possible?
And after that, is it possible to know on which channels a user is connected?
22 Answers
You can use NAMES but just omit the <channel> and <server> variables to get all users.
From NAMES Wikipedia:
Returns a list of who is on the comma-separated list of
<channels>, by channel name. If<channels>is omitted, all users are shown, grouped by channel name with all users who are not on a channel being shown as part of channel "*". If<server>is specified, the command is sent to<server>for evaluation.
You can use the WHOIS <nick> command to get information about a specific user.
/WHOIS buddy
*** buddy is (Think different.)
*** on channels: @#demo #test123
*** on irc via server irc.psinet.com (PSI Net EFNet IRC Server)This will show you what public channels a user is on, but not what secret channels they may also be connected to.
Note, however, that NAMES will not show users that have the +i ("invisible") mode set on themselves, unless you're also in a channel together with them. Since most networks set +i by default, a global NAMES will usually show only a few people who have manually set -i – not everyone on the network.
Also, on some networks, in particular the freenode IRC network, the channel list in WHOIS is affected by this mode as well.
I am not sure if this works on other IRC servers, but on an inspircd server you could do:
/stats LYou'd probably need to be a server administrator (oper) to be allowed to use this command though.
More information:
1/STATS [symbol] {server}
Shows various server statistics. Depending on configuration this command may be reserved for oper-only use. Note that all /STATS use is broadcast to online IRC operators. If a server parameter is given, the stats output fromthe servername you provide is returned instead of that of the local server.
