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<p>Eggdrop Tricks
Last revised: Jun 02, 2021</p>
<section id="advanced-tips">
<h1>Advanced Tips<a class="headerlink" href="#advanced-tips" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>Here are some little tricks that you may or may not know about, which aren’t documented in other areas.</p>
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<h2>Renaming commands<a class="headerlink" href="#renaming-commands" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can rename a built-in command by binding over it. To rename ‘.status’ to ‘.report’, you’d do:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">unbind</span> <span class="n">dcc</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">status</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">dcc</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">status</span>
<span class="n">bind</span> <span class="n">dcc</span> <span class="n">m</span> <span class="n">report</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">dcc</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">status</span>
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<p>The first line removes the built-in binding on ‘.status’, and the second line binds ‘.report’ to the built-in status function.</p>
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<h2>Keeping Logs<a class="headerlink" href="#keeping-logs" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>If you don’t want your logfiles to be deleted after two days and don’t want the bot to create a new logfile each new day, then set ‘keep-all-logs’ to 0 and ‘switch-logfiles-at’ to 2500 in your bot’s config file to make it keeping one logfile all the time. This is not recommended on high traffic channels.</p>
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<h2>Self-logging<a class="headerlink" href="#self-logging" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Because of how traditional IRC works, Eggdrop doesn’t capture outgoing messages to its logfile. However, if the server you are on supports the IRCv3 capability “echo-message”, you can request this capability to be enabled by the server in your config file. This will cause the server to send Eggdrop’d public messages back, thereby allowing those messages to be logged.</p>
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<h2>Modifying Default Strings<a class="headerlink" href="#modifying-default-strings" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can modify Eggdrop’s output in the partyline, kick messages, and other texts by editing core.english.lang in the language directory.</p>
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<h2>Modularizing Your Config File<a class="headerlink" href="#modularizing-your-config-file" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can export parts of your config file to separate files. For example, if you have several config files which differ from themselves only by the nickname and the used servers, you can export them to an own file and link it with the ‘source’ Tcl command, similar to a script. The advantage of this is that you have to edit/upload only the small file instead of the big one. This technique is also useful if you want to maintain the same channel settings, etc across your botnet.</p>
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<h2>Variables in Your Config<a class="headerlink" href="#variables-in-your-config" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can use variables in your config file, since it’s really just a normal Tcl file. For example, you can set ‘userfile’ and ‘chanfile’ to “yourbot.user” and “yourbot.chan” using the following method:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">set</span> <span class="n">myvar</span> <span class="s2">"yourbot"</span>
<span class="nb">set</span> <span class="n">userfile</span> <span class="s2">"$myvar.user"</span>
<span class="nb">set</span> <span class="n">chanfile</span> <span class="s2">"$myvar.chan"</span>
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