Irssi settings and Bash's Environment variables

A much better way would be to set all these settings to your irssi config file. For example, this command will change the nickname:

/set nick Heoa

And every time you start irssi, this nickname will be used.

If you still want it - irssi supports these environment variables:

Note that these environment variables are only set on the first run, and they are ignored if ~/.irssi/config exists.

The settings for Irssi go in ~/.irssi/config.

However, in general, any Bash environment variable is set in ~/.bashrc like this:

export varname=value

The real question is how do you get Irssi to use those variables?

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