For some reason I made an IRC bot in bash.
$ ./bashbot2 --help
Usage:
bashbot2 [OPTIONS...]
Options:
-s, --server SERVER
IP or domain name of the IRC server
-p, --port PORT
Which port to connect to
-c, --channel CHANNEL
Name of the channel this bot should join
-n, --nick NICK
Nickname this bot sould use
-r, --real-name REALNAME
Real name this bot sould use
-t, --tail-file FILE
Tail FILE and output the conetent to the channel
-d, --debug
Print debugging messages
-h, --help
Print this message