<GreyKnight> addquote <Bike> the idea is that you can get the information you need from reading the other players, isn\'t it [...] <Bike> and of course, reading isn\'t limited to facial expressions [...] <fizzie> That\'s true, you can read e.g. books.

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/irclogs/_esoteric
if [ "$1" ]; then
    grep -P -i -- "$1" ????-??-??.txt | shuf -n 1| sed "s=<[^>]*> =="
else
    file=$(shuf -en 1 ????-??-??.txt)
    echo "$file:$(grep "<.*>" $file | shuf -n 1)" | sed "s=<[^>]*> =="
fi