[TF] Dumb trigger question, please help

[dmoore at ucsd.e. (D. Moore)]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:45:29AM +0100, Matt Robinson wrote:
> I scoured the mailing list archive for answers and it doesn't look like 
> someone's asked this before..
> 
> Currently I log all my sessions to files named after the month and the 
> world-name (i.e., 2003-Apr-worldname.log ) but really all I want to log 
> is lines with URLs and email addresses. Thing is, I really have no idea 
> how to do this. I gathered from the help files that /log can't be used 
> on pattern-text, but I found /writefile in textutil.tf  .. so I jumped 
> into the deep end with:
> 
> /require textutil.tf
> /def -mregexp -t"([^ ]+@|(f|ht)tp://)[^\. ]+(\.[^\. ]+)+" catchurl = 
> /echo -e %P0 %| /writefile -a /usr/home/makali/tfurls.txt

-e tells echo to write to tferr, which is not carried across the pipe,
just remove that.

> ... which does absolutely nothing. Fearing that my scary regexp was 
> somehow false, I tried:
> 
> /def  -t"http://" catchweb = /writefile -a /usr/home/makali/tfurls.txt

this is unlikely to match things without -mregexp or leading/trailing *s.

-- david