Recreates irssi's /exec command for thelounge, which allows you to run arbitrary commands on your host and send the output to IRC. Useful for playing ASCII art, cowsay, etc. Thank you to MiniDigger's shortcuts plugin for the inspiration and guide.
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If you have installed thelounge via NPM/Yarn:
thelounge install thelounge-plugin-exec -
If you have installed thelounge via source:
node index.js install thelounge-plugin-exec
Just run /exec <command> to run a command on your host. Obviously this plugin is only recommended for private instances. If you want to use it on a public instance please make sure your permissions are set properly so users can't run harmful commands.
If a command is running too long you can use /exec --stop.
To set the flood protection rates use /exec --set-rate <burst> <per-second> where the first value is a number and the burst flood rate (number of commands to send instantly) and the second value is the delay in milliseconds between messages after that. These default to a value of 5 for the burst and a value of 200 for per-second.