commit 1d943409c64e3a7c03ccf0459730963ce87ad589
parent 5291afc676f6d45f227cc6743d4c9e91ebd73d33
Author: Antoine Amarilli <a3nm@a3nm.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:04:27 +0200
reword, remove ./
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ channel as they appear in the feed:
$ rsstail -u 'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/fmylife' -NdzH -n 1 -i 300 |
grep --line-buffered '^ Today' |
- ./irctk fmlbot@example.com '#fml'
+ irctk fmlbot@example.com '#fml'
=== 4.3. Using irctk's stdout ===
@@ -94,14 +94,10 @@ You can log what is happening on a channel by setting stdout to be a file:
$ irctk logger@example.com '#chan' >file
-Here is a more complex example to log multiple channels in separate files and
-with timestamps:
+You can add timestamps:
- $ irctk logger@example.com '#chan1' '#chan2' | while read line; do
- CHAN=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ']' -f 1 | cut -d '[' -f 2)
- MSG=$(echo "$line" | cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
- echo "`date +%s` $MSG" >> "$CHAN.log"
- done
+ $ irctk logger@example.com '#chan' |
+ awk '{ print strftime("%s"), $0; fflush() }' > file
Caution, if you want to run irctk in the background to do something like this,
you need to prevent it from reading stdin (to avoid it being suspended) without
@@ -149,7 +145,7 @@ say to irctk in return. To do so, we will need a named FIFO:
As an extremely simple interactive program, consider the following:
- $ cat fifo | ./irctk pongbot@example.com '#chat' |
+ $ cat fifo | irctk pongbot@example.com '#chat' |
awk '/[^<]ping/ { print "pong"; fflush() }' > fifo
The awk invocation outputs "pong" whenever it sees a line containing "ping"
@@ -166,7 +162,7 @@ even no networking support), all you need to do is write some code which reads
incoming lines on stdin, posts outgoing lines on stdout, and *does not do
buffering*. You can then lift it to IRC very simply:
- $ cat fifo | ./irctk example.com '#chat' | program > fifo
+ $ cat fifo | irctk example.com '#chat' | program > fifo
=== 4.5. Input and output format ===
