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[onesikgypo]

Hi,

I have a bash script already made, however a new addition id like to make, is that whent he script is executed, my eggdrop msg's a channel with such details. I have already installed and setup my eggdrop, however i have no idea how i can get bash to talk with the eggdrop in order to perform what i require.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou.

[incith]

You will need eggdrop to exec the script.
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[onesikgypo]

could you give a bit more detail on how to do this/how this works - ie. if i had a bash script with

#!/bin/bash
find *.txt >> fils.lst
rm -f *.txt
dir=`pwd`
;;MSG HERE- Msg #chan Cleaning $dir;;

as an example, how would i go about it - and if eggdrop needs to execute the script, im guessing then if executing via ssh then no msges will occur - if this is the case, is there a way i can write an ssh script, which will force the eggdrop to execute the said script (the point of which is that i can continue using ssh?)

Thanks.

[nml375]

I guess you could consider using named pipes to communicate with your eggdrop that way.

In that case, you'd have to set up a "listener" within your eggdrop (open, fconfigure, fileevent, gets, eof) to listen at the pipe, and take appropriate actions upon incoming transmissions.
In order to transmit to your eggdrop, it would be a mere matter of

[incith]

I was thinking just returning certain codes from the shell script. If you return 1... well. Let's put it this way:

[nml375]

@incith: Wouldn't foo always exist in that example?
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[incith]

Well, I didn't test that and had posted it roughly 0.34 seconds after waking up, but...

[nml375]

Rather than using return, I'd make use of the fact that it's just an anonymous pipe... Hence anything sent to stdout would be returned by exec.

Still, this leaves the issue of being able to do this directly from the shell environment. I guess you could telnet into the eggdrop from the shell and do it that way...
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[karrde]

[nml375]

One thing I did forget, is that opening a pipe in RDONLY-mode will block until another process opens the pipe in RWONLY-mode. With normal tcl-scripting this would probably not be such a big issue, as this would probably be some server-like application. With eggdrops however, this would prevent your eggdrop from performing it's normal tasks.

One option still would be using tcp-sockets, and use nc (if available). This however has the downside that anyone who knows the listening-port could connect there and send arbitrary data. You would thus have to implement some kind of safety-mechanism.
To achieve something like this however, you'd do something like this:

[karrde]

Perfect! Thanks to your code, I'm a lot closer than I was before. Thanks for your help!

I did notice though that I can't actually do "echo write #mychan blah" because echo interprets the # as the start of a remark Oh, and I had to change

[nml375]

Sorry for that, two of those nasty typos that just slip through no matter how many times you re-read your post before submitting. Updated previous post to correct both issues.
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