! loogy.md

A simple IRC log script

Just wget the file below, set the variables nick,channel and server and run it (config doesn't need to be changed). Output is send to stdout. You probably want to send it to a file. To do so, I recommend one of these structures:

If you don't want to see the output in a terminal:

irclogscript.sh >> logs.txt

If you do want to see the output in a terminal:

irclogscript.sh | tee -a logs.txt

Both of these commands are non-destructive; Data is always appended to the file.

The default nick is $$ which is the pID for the script when you run it.

Best run in a tmux window.

Original script taken from here

irclogscript.sh

#!/bin/sh

nick="$$"
channel=
server=
config=/tmp/irclog

[ -n "$1" ] && channel=$1
[ -n "$2" ] && server=$2
config="${config}_${channel}"

now=$(date)
echo "Logging Started at $now" > $config
echo "NICK $nick" >> $config
echo "USER $nick +i * :$0" >> $config
echo "JOIN #$channel" >> $config

trap '"now2=$(date); echo "Logging ended at $now2" >> $config"' INT TERM EXIT

tail -f $config | nc $server 6667 | while read MESSAGE
do
  case "$MESSAGE" in
    PING*) echo "PONG${MESSAGE#PING}" >> $config;;
    *QUIT*) ;;
    *PART*) ;;
    *JOIN*) ;;
    *NICK*) ;;
    *PRIVMSG*) echo "${MESSAGE}" | sed -nr "s/^:([^!]+).*PRIVMSG[^:]+:(.*)/[$(date '+%R')] \1> \2/p";;
    *) echo "${MESSAGE}";;
  esac
done