Reduce the amount of information printed to the output window. Everything should be in the logs.

bot.sh

@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ close_bot()
 trap close_bot EXIT $?
 
 echo "Session started $(date "+%I:%M%p%n    %A, %B %d, %Y")" | tee "$log" 
-echo "NICK $nick" | tee "$input"
-echo "USER $user" | tee -a "$input"
-echo "JOIN #$channel" | tee -a "$input"
+echo "NICK $nick" > "$input"
+echo "USER $user" >> "$input"
+echo "JOIN #$channel" >> "$input"
 
 tail -f "$input" | telnet "$server" "$port" | while read result
 do
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ do
   case "$result" in
     # respond to ping requests from the server
     PING*)
-      echo "$result" | tee -a "$log"
-      echo "${result/I/O}" | tee -a "$input"
+      echo "${result/I/O}" >> "$input"
     ;;
     # for pings on nick/user
     *"You have not"*)