Commands

Xor commands are called this way:

<prefix><command_name_or_alias> [...arguments]
[input]

The <prefix> should be either \ or >.

Note that you cannot use custom prefixes as for now.

Also, the current two prefixes have their special meanings which will be clarified below.

Here’s an example of a simple command call:

\ping

Or one with arguments:

\sh whoami

Inputs

Excluding the arguments, commands can accept longer content called inputs.

If the prefix you use is \, the input will be all of your command message excluding the first line which includes the command trigger and the arguments. But if the prefix you use is >, the input will be the text of the message which was replied.

To make this clearer, we can see how the built-in shell command takes use of the input you provide.

In the command

\sh grep a
b
c
a
d

a grep process will be started with the arguments a. After starting it, the whole text of your message (excluding its first line) will be passed into the process’ stdin. Which will result in grep finding the a character in your command input.

Also, the command

>sh grep a

will do the same thing as above the command, but the input is going to be the text of the message you are replying to.