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@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ Despite these test failures, their core functionality should still work as
expected.
#### re::engine::RE2
PBot uses the `re::engine::RE2` module for its regular expressions. This engine is safer
for user-submitted regular expressions.
PBot uses the `re::engine::RE2` module for user-submitted regular expressions.
If you could not install it through CPAN, you must install it manually.
@ -87,24 +86,17 @@ After git-cloning (or unpacking the ZIP archive) you should have a directory nam
Name | Description
--- | ---
[`PBot/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/PBot) | PBot source tree
[`Plugins/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/Plugins) | Dynamically loadable internal plugins
[`lib/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/lib) | PBot source tree
[`script/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/script) | PBot executables
[`modules/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/modules) | External command-line executables invokable as PBot commands
[`data/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/data) | Default data-directory
[`doc/`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/doc) | Helpful documentation
[`pbot`](https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/blob/master/pbot) | executable used to launch PBot
You may create a symbolic link to the `pbot` executable in `$HOME/bin/` or even
in `/usr/local/bin/`.
### Clone data-directory
PBot uses a data-directory to store all its configuration settings and data. You must
clone this data-directory for each instance of PBot you want to run, otherwise they
will become quite confused with each other and things will break horribly.
Even if you're using just one instance of PBot it is still strongly recommended to clone
the default data-directory, especially if you used `git` to install PBot.
Here we clone the data-directory for two PBot instances, naming them after the
IRC network they will connect to:
@ -193,6 +185,11 @@ recommended settings should suffice. If you have any issues, please [report them
or by sending `pragma-` a message on the Libera.Chat network.
## Starting PBot
The executable to start PBot lives in `script/pbot`. You may create a symbolic
link to the `script/pbot` executable in `$HOME/bin/` or in `/usr/local/bin/`.
If you choose not to install the `script/pbot` file to your PATH, remember
to use `./script/pbot` instead of `pbot` in the following examples.
### Usage
$ pbot [directory overrides...] [registry overrides...]
@ -206,7 +203,7 @@ the PBot STDIN interface.
#### Overriding directories
You may override PBot's default directory locations via the command-line.
$ pbot data_dir=/path/to/data plugin_dir=/path/to/Plugins modules_dir=/path/to/modules
$ pbot data_dir=/path/to/data modules_dir=/path/to/modules
#### Overriding registry
You may override any of your Registry values via the command-line. Any overrides made will be