---
name: "bobot++"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bobot++"
version: "1:1.97-10.4"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bobot++"
---

# bobot++(1)

an IRC bot.

## NAME

bobot++ - an IRC bot.

## SYNOPSIS

bobot++ \[-h\] \[-b\] \[-f file\] \[-d dir\] \[-D\]

## DESCRIPTION

*bobot++* is a robust IRC bot with many features such as flood control, userlist and channel control, logging, scripting.

## OPTIONS

*bobot++* accepts the following options:

- **-h**

  Show help message and exit.

- **-b**

  Do not run in the background.

- **-f** *file*

  Use *file* as a configuration file.

- **-d** *dir*

  Use *dir* as the working directory.

- **-D**

  Debug mode: do not run in the background and verbose input/output printing.

## CONFIGURATION FILES

The *bot.conf* configuration file needs to be present in the current directory and is the only mandatory configuration file. You can override this behaviour with the **-f** and **-d** flags.

Other configuration files that *bobot++* will look for are *bot.users* which contains the userlist, and *bot.shit* which contains the shitlist.

Also, *bot.init* contains a list of aliases that the bot will recognize, *bot.help* is the customizable help file for the different bot commands, and *bot.autoexec* is a Guile Scheme script that will be loaded at launch time, which you can use to load other scripts, or create new aliases, commands and hooks.

On the Debian distribution, configuration examples can be found in the */usr/share/doc/bobot++/examples/* directory.

## COPYRIGHT

bobot++ is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public Licence.

## AUTHORS

bobot++ was written by Etienne Bernard \<eb@pltplp.net\>.

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar \<sam@zoy.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).