shic - SHellscript Irc Client

halhen · 2010-10-17 04:50:52

To learn BASH scripting, I made an IRC client along the lines of sic in pure BASH. A hundred lines later, I've got something good enough to try at http://github.com/halhen/shic.

Features are similar to sic, plus support for configurable regexp based coloring.

As I stress in the README, I have only little experience of BASH scripting. Let me know where I screwed up.

Daenyth · 2010-10-17 18:15:39

What a masochistic project. I like it

hatten · 2010-10-17 18:52:31

Hm, might be worth checking out.

/me uses ii, it's awesome to sit and write scripts for it.

halhen · 2010-10-17 20:04:33

Thanks guys.

Daenyth: thanks for your tip on github. I changed my "$*" to "$@". I'm waiting for mr Mailman to bring Pro Bash Programming any day now, so I can straigthen out a few question marks like this one.

A few additions since the last post:

~/.shicrc and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/shic/shicrc are read as config files automatically
The config variable SHIC_SCRIPT can contain ';'-separated input to be automatically executed at startup. For example, to join #archlinux and #python and set current channel to none at startup:
```
SHIC_SCRIPT=":j #archlinux; :j #python; :s;"
```

My shicrc, while similar to the default, is on github.

Now, I need to think about bloat. Already 90 lines of BASH code, and a whopping 129 lines with comments and blanks.

kittykatt · 2010-10-18 00:59:06

Interesting. Gonna check this out soon.

rlp10 · 2011-07-06 16:19:21

Halhen -- great script, well done. Just the kind of thing that I like. I actually do use sic, but I prefer bash to c, so I've switched to yours. And it does colours!

Now a question for you: Would it be possible to connect to shic, disconnect from it and then reconnect again, using socat and unix sockets?

I was trying to figure this out the other day but couldn't get it to work. Something like:

socat SYSTEM:shic UNIX-LISTEN:shic-pipe
socat - UNIX-CONNECT:shic-pipe

But it dies when I disconnect. I think I need to get the first one to ignore the "end of file" sent when the second one disconnects.

I realise gnu screen can achieve a similar thing, but this is cooler and more fun.

Richard

halhen · 2011-07-08 07:04:07

TIL about socat. Very cool indeed!

Try adding fork as an option to UNIX-LISTEN as such:

socat SYSTEM:shic UNIX-LISTEN:shic-pipe,fork

. After this, it works for me.

rlp10 · 2011-07-08 08:20:23

halhen wrote:

TIL about socat. Very cool indeed!

Great isn't it? So now you could use shic as an interactive irc client, then disconnect and hand it over to a script to act as a bot (very easy with shic) and then reconnect for interactive use. socat ftw!

halhen wrote:

Try adding fork as an option to UNIX-LISTEN as such:
socat SYSTEM:shic UNIX-LISTEN:shic-pipe,fork
. After this, it works for me.

Perfect. Just what I was looking for--thanks for that.

rlp10 · 2011-07-08 09:15:18

rlp10 wrote:

So now you could use shic as an interactive irc client, then disconnect and hand it over to a script to act as a bot (very easy with shic) and then reconnect for interactive use.

Or... have it log to a file so you can see what was said when you come back.

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