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Ircpipe – Netcat for IRC
A feature often purported by IRC proponents (of which I am one) is that IRC is simple enough that one can connect to it using telnet or netcat. But in practice PING :e94e45cc PONG :e94e45cc — this gets annoying fairly quickly.
This is where ircpipe comes in: a simple utility that understands just enough IRC to handle those PINGs, as well as connection setup, authentication, and even joining an initial list of channels. But the real reason I developed ircpipe, its the killer feature so to speak, is alerting myself when some rare(ish) event happens: A script is looking at a logfile, and once a matching log line was found, sends me a private message, which makes my smartphone ring. missing ), unterminated subpattern at position 4711 The whole shebang is implemented in <500 lines of C89, depending only on libc and libtls/ libretls.
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