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Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-30T08:54:45-04:00

Thought so

A common practise is to indicate mandatory parameters by surrounding them with <>, optional parameters with [], and anything that's supposed to be written "as-is" without any characters around them.
This syntax is used in the documentation of eggdrop's extended tcl-commands (doc/tcl-commands.doc).

Side-note: Of course, these characters can be valid in a command-line (if say, pipe-redirections are desired). Generally, the documentation would make it somewhat obvious such is the case (tho there's always examples where this is not true aswell)

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:54 am

Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-30T08:03:04-04:00

ah okay

i thought that a should put the conffile name in <> because ist was writen in the instroctions^^

greatz

Statistics: Posted by trashmasterfx — Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:03 am

Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-29T18:45:17-04:00

or use backslash to escape the special char
Code:
./eggdrop -m \

What the? You do not need to do that; and who would?

The user simply misinterpreted the instructions and did not realise the <>'s were to be replaced.

Statistics: Posted by Alchera — Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:45 pm

Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-29T15:07:32-04:00

or use backslash to escape the special char

Code:

./eggdrop -m \

Statistics: Posted by krimson — Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:07 pm

Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-29T15:27:13-04:00

I'd suggest you remove the <>, as these are interpreted as io-redirectors by most shells...
Proper command-line would be:

Code:

./eggdrop -m trashbot.conf

Edit: Using these and similar characters are generally NOT advisable, as their use generally results in issues like these. If you've named your file with them, I would strongly advise you to rename the file to not include them.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:57 pm

Problem with eggdrop on shell command line

2006-08-29T14:43:21-04:00

hi

does somebody know what this line meens : syntax error near unexpected token `newline' . this is shown when i try to start the bot on my shell with the command : ./eggdrop -m .

what can i do to get the bot working

greatz

Statistics: Posted by trashmasterfx — Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:43 pm