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Install bashbot

1. Go to the directory you want to install bashbot, e.g.
   • your $HOME directory (install and run with your user-ID)
   • /usr/local if you want to run as service
2. Download latest release zip from github and extract all files.
3. Change into the directory telegram-bot-bash
4. Acticate the bot example commands ``cp mycommands.sh.dist mycommands.sh```
5. Run ./bashbot.sh init to setup the environment and enter your Bots token given by botfather.

Edit 'mycommands.sh to your needs. Now your Bot is ready to start ...

If you are new to Bot development read Bots: An introduction for developers

Install from Github

As an alternative to download the zip files, you can clone the github repository to get the latest improvements/fixes.

1. Go to the directory you want to install bashbot, e.g.
   • your $HOME directory (install and run with your user-ID)
   • /usr/local if you want to run as service
2. Run git clone https://github.com/topkecleon/telegram-bot-bash.git
3. Change into the directory telegram-bot-bash
4. Run test/ALL-tests.sh and if everthing finish OK ...
5. Run sudo ./bashbot.sh init to setup the environment and enter your Bots token given by botfather.

Update bashbot

Note: all files including 'mycommands.sh' may overwritten, make a backup!

1. Go to the directory where you had installed bashbot, e.g.
   • your $HOME directory
   • /usr/local
2. Download latest release zip from github
3. Stop all running instances of bashbot
4. Extract all files to your existing bashbot dir
5. Run sudo ./bashbot.sh init to setup your environment after the update

If you modified 'commands.sh' move your changes to 'mycommands.sh', this avoids overwrrite of you changes on updates.

Now you can restart your bashbot instances.

Notes on Updates

removal of TMUX

From version 0.80 on TMUX is no longer needed and the bachsbot command 'attach' is deleted. Old function 'inproc' is replaced by 'send_interactive'. send_interactive does checks if an interactive job is running internaly. Pls check if you make use of inproc and remove it including the old checks, e.g.

if tmux ls | grep -v send | grep -q "$copname"; then inproc; fi
# or
[ checkprog ] && inproc

must be replaced by send_interactive "${CHATD[ID]}" "${MESSAGE}"

Do not edit commands.sh

From version 0.60 on your commands must be placed in 'mycommands.sh'. If you update from a version with your commands in 'commands.sh' move all your commands and functions to 'mycommands.sh'.

From version 0.80 on 'commands.sh' will be overwritten on update!

Location of var / tmp / data dirs

From version 0.70 on the tmp dir is renamed to 'data-bot-bash' to reflect the fact that not only temporary files are stored. an existing 'tmp-bot-bash' will be automatically renamed after update.

From version 0.50 on the temporary files are no more placed in '/tmp'. instead a dedicated tmp dir is used.

Changes to send_keyboard in v0.6

From Version 0.60 on keybord format for send_keyboard and send_message "mykeyboardstartshere ..." was changed. Keybords are now defined in JSON Array notation e.g. "[ \"yes\" , \"no\" ]". This has the advantage that you can create any type of keyboard supported by Telegram. The old format is supported for backward compatibility, but may fail for corner cases.

Example Keyboards:

• yes no in two rows:
  • OLD format: 'yes' 'no' (two strings)
  • NEW format: '[ "yes" ] , [ "no" ]' (two arrays with a string)
• new layouts made easy with NEW format:
  • Yes No in one row: '[ "yes" , "no" ]'
  • Yes No plus Maybe in 2.row: '[ "yes" , "no" ] , [ "maybe" ]'
  • numpad style keyboard: '[ "1" , "2" , "3" ] , [ "4" , "5" , "6" ] , [ "7" , "8" , "9" ] , [ "0" ]'

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