Show HN: IRCd in Pure Bash

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Found: October 30, 2025
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Show HN: IRCd in Pure Bash In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755788 there was mention of an IRC server using gawk, but no code. So I wrote an IRCd in pure bash.

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