From 1c514f4c8a83d3f03642aa6c3dd78612097094a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Natanael Copa Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:04:13 +0200 Subject: readme: tell how to use sircbot-send --- README | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index eac2309..fee9ba2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,9 +1,17 @@ sircbot is a small IRC bot for use with git hooks, cronjobs, scripts etc +start the server with: + sircbot -s SERVER -n NICK '#channel1' '#channel2' + It connects to server and joins given channels. When a channel is joined -it creates a fifo: /var/run/sircbot/<#channel> +it creates a unix socket /var/run/sircbot/<#channel> which can connected to +with sircbot-send. + +To send to a connected channel use: + + echo "$message" | sircbot-send '#channel1' -Everything written to the fifo will be echoed in the channel. +sircbot-send will send everything from stdin to given channel. For every message that goes to the channel, sircbot will run all scripts in /etc/sircbot.d/<#channel>/ with sender, message and channel name as arguments. -- cgit v1.2.3