I am a complete and total novice to irc. Never used and never wanted to before.
Rather than put my vast ignorance on display and annoy the heck out of others on the channel, I'd like to extract information from the irc servers and write it to disk. My most often used scripting language is perl so I wondered if there is already a perl module that will allow me to do that. Here is an example of the kind of mess you can get into: Connecting to irc.freenode.net and foolishly but at least not malignantly using the 'list' command. /list It spewed out so many lines that just kept coming until I finally ^ c'ed over and over to get it to stop. I next tried '/list solaris'... but it seemed to be the exact same response. Thousands of lines of output... that I finally had to ^c out of it again. The irc man pages do not make it particularly clear how to use the list command (not to me anyway). I'd like to extract that same hefty pile of info but have it written to a file. Probably other kinds of info too once I've studied things a bit more. I could then just grep the pile for items. How can I do something like that from the command line? Or is there a perl module that would allow me to script up something that will accomplish that without actually trying to do it while on an irc channel? I guess in briefest form... I'm asking how to cause irc output to be written to disc? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
