#!/bin/sh
# IRC nick stats script
# prints how many lines each user has said
# polprog 2018

messageregex='\(<[ @+].*>\)\|\(* \(.*\)\)'

printf "IRC LOG STATS:\n"
printf "\tMSGs\tNICK\n"

grep -a "${messageregex}" $1 |				# show messages (filter out Joins/parts/quits/client messages), -a to suspress "Binary file matches ...." message
sed -e 's/<[ \@+]\([^ <>]*\)>/\1/; s/* \(.*\)/\1/' | 	# drop prefixes and angle brackets, remove * from ACTIONs
awk '{ print $2}' |					# print just the nick 
sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | awk '{print "\t" $1 "\t" $2}'