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horazont
xmpp-echo-bot
sed2018–2022
horazont / xmpp-echo-bot

xmpp-echo-bot

XMPP/Jabber echo bot (written in sed)

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What it is

XMPP/Jabber echo bot (written in sed)

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-26 17:11:18 UTC to 2022-02-15 22:26:38 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

5 sources
jssfr·Jul 25, 2018
Author of xmpp-echo-bot here. > echoz.sh also uses cut, base64, stdbuf, tr, mkfifo, tee and sort. tee can be eliminated if needed be, the others should probably be added to the list of dependencies, thanks. > echoz.sh does not seem to have any "bashisms" so perhaps one does not actually need bash and other sh will suffice. Indeed, there is a PR which I have to review which fixes that. > The uses of cut to isolate substrings and tr to replace characters can also be acomplished using sed. I would be interested how you would do especially the tr part in sed, given that sed, even unbufferedly, operates on "lines". I use tr to replace '>' (XML delimiter) with a line ending recognized by sed to be able to operate on individual XML elements. The uses of cut could be replaced by sed in the script indeed, although it can’t be moved into the main s
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ed script. I made an issue for that: https://github.com/horazont/xmpp-echo-bot/issues/6 <spoiler> > "All you have is openssl, bash, dig, stdbuf and sed?" I hope it is clear that this entire thing is ironic and the long list of dependencies -- especially given that bash could reasonably be used to replace sed here -- is supposed to underline that. I’ll gladly add more :). </spoiler>
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