forked from [clsr/sedbot](https://github.com/clsr/sedbot) -
updated for `-i`'s new argument requirement and daemonized
sedbot is an IRC search-replace bot written using bash and sed.
Usage: Edit the settings on top of sedbot.bash and run it under an unprivileged user.
### usage
1. `cp .cfg{.example,}`
1. adjust as needed
1. `bash sedbot.bash`
### daemonization
1. adjust sedbot.service
1. `mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user`
1. `cp sedbot.service ~/.config/systemd/user/`
1. `systemctl --user daemon-reload`
1. `systemctl --user enable --now sedbot`
### authenticate to services
1. `cp account.ini{.sample,}`
1. fill in your credentials
1. restart the bot (`systemctl --user restart sedbot`)
Only the s command and g and i flags are supported. Multiple regular expressions can be used at once, delimit them with spaces in between the flags and the s next one's s command. The last one may omit the trailing / if it has no options.
@ -24,3 +45,4 @@ Example usage in chat:
<sedbot><foo> gfhi
Note that the bot uses the standard grep (POSIX) regular expressions, i.e. use `.\+` and `\(foo\)\?` instead of `.+` and `(foo)?` as you'd do in egrep or other regex engines. Backreferences are written like `s/\(.\)/\1`, where `\1` matches the first capturing group. [Read more about sed regular expressions.](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html)
