A simple IRC bot. Join, spam, disconnect.

bot.sh

#!/bin/bash

# $1: The nickname to use
function ircpreamble {
  echo "NICK ${1}"
  echo "USER ${1} 0 * :Totally not a spambot"
}

# $1: Channel to join
function channel {
  echo "JOIN ${1}"
}

# stdin: a stream where each line is converted to a message
# $1: The user/channel to send to
function privmsg {
  TARGET=$1
  sed -re "s/^(.*)\$/PRIVMSG ${TARGET} :\1/"
}

# Curtail spam protection
function delay {
  while read LINE; do
    sleep 2
    echo $LINE
  done
}

# Replace with reading your file or whatever
function messages {
  echo "spam spam spam"
  echo "lovely spam"
}

function disconnect {
  echo "QUIT no more spam"
}


(
 ircpreamble "FarbrorAlBot";
 channel "#megabice";
 messages | privmsg "#megabice";
 disconnect;
) | delay | nc irc.freenode.net 6667