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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
:Revision: 		2
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Tool of the year: ii (irc it)
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:Description:
    Via James Pic I just got to know the fantastic tool *irc it* (short *ii*).
    ii is a very simple and slick designed IRC client, that works on the Linux
    / Unix shell. ii simlpy uses the file system to structure IRC connections,
    channels and queries and offers FIFOs to communicate with the server. It
    allows you to write IRC bots in bash (or any other language that allows
    file access) with a glimpse and my mind already imagines a huge ton of
    possible applications. My first test showed that it works really cool!
    Amazingly cool tool and therefore in the sense of BitlBee (yes, I skipped
    a year ;) my tool of the year (so far).

Via `James Pic`__ I just got to know the fantastic tool *irc it* (short *ii*).
ii is a very simple and slick designed IRC client, that works on the Linux /
Unix shell. ii simlpy uses the file system to structure IRC connections,
channels and queries and offers FIFOs to communicate with the server. It
allows you to write IRC bots in bash (or any other language that allows file
access) with a glimpse and my mind already imagines a huge ton of possible
applications. My first test showed that it works really cool! Amazingly cool
tool and therefore `in the sense of`__ `BitlBee`__ (yes, I skipped a year ;)
my tool of the year (so far).

.. __: http://devangels.org/
.. __: /opensource/blog/0485_tool_of_the_year_bitlbee.html
.. __: http://bitlbee.org/

Some example output of the filesystem structure ii creates:

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    dotxp@tango /tmp $ ls -l -R irc/
    irc/:
    total 4
    drwx------ 5 dotxp users 4096 2008-03-06 22:40 irc.freenode.net
    
    irc/irc.freenode.net:
    total 24
    drwx------ 2 dotxp users  4096 2008-03-06 22:40 #ezcomponents
    drwx------ 2 dotxp users  4096 2008-03-06 22:25 freenode-connect
    prwx------ 1 dotxp users     0 2008-03-06 22:40 in
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dotxp users 10321 2008-03-06 22:40 out
    drwx------ 2 dotxp users  4096 2008-03-06 22:39 #test
    
    irc/irc.freenode.net/#ezcomponents:
    total 4
    prwx------ 1 dotxp users  0 2008-03-06 22:40 in
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dotxp users 75 2008-03-06 22:40 out
    
    irc/irc.freenode.net/freenode-connect:
    total 4
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dotxp users 92 2008-03-06 22:38 out
    
    irc/irc.freenode.net/#test:
    total 4
    prwx------ 1 dotxp users   0 2008-03-06 22:39 in
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dotxp users 128 2008-03-06 22:39 out

To use the client, simply do a *tail* on an *out* FIFO and *echo* your
commands and chat messages into an *in* FIFO. That's it, have fun! :)


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