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Does anyone know of a command line jabber client that would run in OS X in the terminal?

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mcabber (man) is available via Homebrew.

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Daniel Beck
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    This is a console client, not a command line one. – shellholic Feb 20 '11 at 15:04
  • @shellholic What's your point? He explicitly mentions Terminal. – Daniel Beck Feb 20 '11 at 15:29
  • @Corey Then please click the checkmark you see next to my post to mark this answer as "accepted", and your question as answered. Thanks! – Daniel Beck Feb 20 '11 at 16:34
  • In a console client, there is a user interface in a terminal. In a command line client, you type commands after commands in the terminal. For example, in the field of file manipulation, "`ls`, `cd`, `mv`, `cp`" are command line client and `mc` (Midnight Commander) is a console client. – shellholic Feb 20 '11 at 17:22
  • By the way. I think this is why I couldn't find what I was looking for. I was searching for 'command line jabber client'. Now that I've searched for 'console jabber client' I'm finding mcabber. – Corey Riggle Feb 20 '11 at 18:16
  • @shellholic Please cite your sources. – Daniel Beck Feb 20 '11 at 20:39
  • References from Wikipedia: [Console application](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_application), [Command line](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface) – shellholic Feb 20 '11 at 21:03
  • @shell How does your understanding of the definition of command-line program fit with [interactive programming language interpreters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface#Programming_languages_in_interactive_mode) like Python's? *Interactive* mode, not "process this source file" mode! Just type `python` and see what happens. The only difference left, IMO, is the sophistication of output handling (line by line in CLI, complete control over display in console application). Which is probably not what the poster cared for in his question. – Daniel Beck Feb 20 '11 at 21:15
  • (Sorry for post hijacking but this discussion interest me) If you push me in the corner and really want to draw a line between console and command line, here is my suggestion: if you can do it without cursor motion (ANSI escape), it is a command line app. If you need cursor motion, it is a console app. For the interpreter/shell case, it's more the first than the second. – shellholic Feb 20 '11 at 21:59
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    For example, the Jabber partial client here: [sendxmpp](http://sendxmpp.platon.sk/) is a command line one. You can pipe to it. `echo "my message" | sendxmpp someone@jabber.org` – shellholic Feb 20 '11 at 22:07
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There is a Perl script that can be usefull, but only for sending: sendxmpp

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  • It doen't work with different domain (when Jabber server was moved to another domain name, but virtual hosts remain with the old name). – Paul Jan 24 '23 at 01:22