Bash IRC Bot

ecube@chrome ~ % cat bashbot.sh
#!/bin/bash

nick="cubencbot"
channel="#bots"
server="wazu.info.tm"

config=/tmp/irclog

config="${config}"

echo "NICK $nick" > $config
echo "USER $nick +i * :$0" >> $config
echo "JOIN $channel" >> $config

tail -f $config | nc $server 6667 | while read msg
do
  echo $msg
  case "$msg" in
    :*PRIVMSG $nick :!nick*)
      nick=`echo $msg | awk -F '!nick' '{print $2}'` | tr -d ' ' >> $config
      echo "NICK" $nick
    ;;
  esac
done