From: Laurent Bachelier <laurent@bachelier.name>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:02:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Support piping text to irk
X-Git-Tag: 1.11~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=irker.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=53fbe3f84076959e983a03fe424bbb054b52c8cb

Support piping text to irk

Usage: outcmd|irk target -
Sending "-" is still possible by echo -|irk target -

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
---

diff --git a/irk b/irk
index 320787e..4815db1 100755
--- a/irk
+++ b/irk
@@ -10,16 +10,24 @@
 import json
 import socket
 import sys
+import fileinput
+
+def send(target, message):
+    data = {"to": target, "privmsg" : message}
+    print(json.dumps(data))
+    try:
+        s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
+        s.sendall(json.dumps(data))
+    except socket.error, e:
+        sys.stderr.write("irkerd: server launch failed: %r\n" % e)
 
 target = sys.argv[1]
 if not "irc:" in target:
     target = "irc://chat.freenode.net/{0}".format(target)
 message = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
 message = message.decode('string_escape')
-data = {"to": target, "privmsg" : message}
-print(json.dumps(data))
-try:
-    s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
-    s.sendall(json.dumps(data))
-except socket.error, e:
-    sys.stderr.write("irkerd: server launch failed: %r\n" % e)
+if message == '-':
+    for line in fileinput.input('-'):
+        send(target, line.rstrip('\n'))
+else:
+    send(target, message)