Redirecting output from a bash command into a script
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I'm trying to do some stuff with QR codes and a found a library called ZBar. Once installed it comes with a bash command called zbarcam which reads from a camera and continuously prints out whenever it scans and decodes a QR code (it prints out the decoded value of the QR). I want to, instead of printing the output, take the output and give it as an input to another script so I can do some things with it. TL;DR how can a continuously capture the output from zbarcam and pass it to my script as an input.
bash shell qr-code zbar
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I'm trying to do some stuff with QR codes and a found a library called ZBar. Once installed it comes with a bash command called zbarcam which reads from a camera and continuously prints out whenever it scans and decodes a QR code (it prints out the decoded value of the QR). I want to, instead of printing the output, take the output and give it as an input to another script so I can do some things with it. TL;DR how can a continuously capture the output from zbarcam and pass it to my script as an input.
bash shell qr-code zbar
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asked Nov 8 at 10:08
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I'm trying to do some stuff with QR codes and a found a library called ZBar. Once installed it comes with a bash command called zbarcam which reads from a camera and continuously prints out whenever it scans and decodes a QR code (it prints out the decoded value of the QR). I want to, instead of printing the output, take the output and give it as an input to another script so I can do some things with it. TL;DR how can a continuously capture the output from zbarcam and pass it to my script as an input.
bash shell qr-code zbar
edited Nov 8 at 11:51
Rohit Verma
1,4332623
asked Nov 8 at 10:08
konstabtin konatantinov
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I'm trying to do some stuff with QR codes and a found a library called ZBar. Once installed it comes with a bash command called zbarcam which reads from a camera and continuously prints out whenever it scans and decodes a QR code (it prints out the decoded value of the QR). I want to, instead of printing the output, take the output and give it as an input to another script so I can do some things with it. TL;DR how can a continuously capture the output from zbarcam and pass it to my script as an input.
bash shell qr-code zbar
bash shell qr-code zbar
edited Nov 8 at 11:51
Rohit Verma
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edited Nov 8 at 11:51
Rohit Verma
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asked Nov 8 at 10:08
konstabtin konatantinov
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edited Nov 8 at 11:51
Rohit Verma
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edited Nov 8 at 11:51
Rohit Verma
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Is it from zbar?
They have an example in their manpage:
Scan for barcodes using the second video device and pipe the resulting data through a script that searches for each code in a database and does something useful with them:
zbarcam /dev/video1 | upcrpc.py
The upcrpc.py example script included in the examples/ subdirectory of the distribution will make an XMLRPC call to a popular internet UPC database and print the product description if found.
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Is it from zbar?
They have an example in their manpage:
Scan for barcodes using the second video device and pipe the resulting data through a script that searches for each code in a database and does something useful with them:
zbarcam /dev/video1 | upcrpc.py
The upcrpc.py example script included in the examples/ subdirectory of the distribution will make an XMLRPC call to a popular internet UPC database and print the product description if found.
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Is it from zbar?
They have an example in their manpage:
Scan for barcodes using the second video device and pipe the resulting data through a script that searches for each code in a database and does something useful with them:
zbarcam /dev/video1 | upcrpc.py
The upcrpc.py example script included in the examples/ subdirectory of the distribution will make an XMLRPC call to a popular internet UPC database and print the product description if found.
answered Nov 8 at 12:03
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Is it from zbar?
They have an example in their manpage:
Scan for barcodes using the second video device and pipe the resulting data through a script that searches for each code in a database and does something useful with them:
zbarcam /dev/video1 | upcrpc.py
The upcrpc.py example script included in the examples/ subdirectory of the distribution will make an XMLRPC call to a popular internet UPC database and print the product description if found.
answered Nov 8 at 12:03
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Is it from zbar?
They have an example in their manpage:
Scan for barcodes using the second video device and pipe the resulting data through a script that searches for each code in a database and does something useful with them:
zbarcam /dev/video1 | upcrpc.py
The upcrpc.py example script included in the examples/ subdirectory of the distribution will make an XMLRPC call to a popular internet UPC database and print the product description if found.
answered Nov 8 at 12:03
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answered Nov 8 at 12:03
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