IRCcat: Simple posting to IRC from shell scripts
IRCcat [1] does 2 things:
- Listens on a specific ip:port and writes incoming data to an IRC [2] channel.
This is useful for sending various announcements and log messages to irc from shell scripts, Nagios and other services.
- Hands off commands issued on irc to a handler program (eg: shell script) and responds to irc with the output of the handler script. This only happens for commands addressed to irccat: or prefixed with ?. (easily extend irccat functionality with your own scripts)
It is written in Java und licensed under GPLv2.
[1] http://github.com/RJ/irccat/ and http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat