Taking an input from a shell command

[greenbear]

I don't see anything wrong, so here's a few guesses

Maybe it's having trouble seing the bot (wrong botname).
One way to find out is to use putallbots instead of putbot.

Replace

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putbot Turbo-BW "bwmsg ..."

With

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putallbots "bwmsg ..."

That'll make any bot in the botnet with the bwmsg bind respond.

If that doesn't help, try changing the bind from +W to +b

And if the msg is too long, it might be cut off by the irc-server, and you get nothing.

[TurboChicken]

well i think i have it working... just through trial and eror... i've gone through about 6 lots of hair....

one question i have:

all my bots have the nick Turbo-<2 or 3 char ref>

i want the script to take out the last 2 chars and put them in a var that i can use in the reply.

this is what i got so far

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   set serverbw [lindex [split $botnick \-] 1]

but i get a tcl error

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Tcl error [botnetusage]: can't read "botnick": no such variable

now i've used that variable as part of the trigger on the other script and it works fine... y can i not use it there?

[greenbear]

It's a global var, so you either have to define it inside your proc, using 'global', or use $::botnick instead of $botnick.

[TurboChicken]

works a treat mate... cheers....

i used $::botnick and it worked... how would i use "global"?

and see... i can do something's by myself!!!!!

[greenbear]

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set fruitname "oranges"

bind pub -|- !fruit pub:fruit
proc pub:fruit {n u h c a} {
 global fruitname
 putserv "PRIVMSG $c :Today's fruit is $fruitname!"
}