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How to scrape rxvt screen for text ?
Posted: Sat 06 Feb 2010, 07:24
by sunburnt
I think 8-bit also asked this Q...
How to get rxvt`s screen output while it`s running a CLI app.
Need last line of the rxvt screen output while it`s running vobcopy.
Sometimes the movie size is stated wrong ( how do they do that ? ).
But once vobcopy is running the movie size is stated correctly.
This will help automate the ripping process.
Posted: Sat 06 Feb 2010, 07:38
by technosaurus
I don't have a dvd handy but
vobcopy -I <something.vob> |tail -1
Posted: Sat 06 Feb 2010, 19:34
by sunburnt
Thanks technosaurus, I`ll give it a try and let you know...
Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 02:32
by Flash
The way to copy and paste in rxvt is known only to the guy who wrote rxvt and a few of his closest friends. You'd think it would be in rxvt's help menu, but nooooo.
I seem to remember once highlighting some text in rxvt and using something like ctrl-s to copy and ctrl-v to paste.
Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 05:25
by technosaurus
middle click to cut/paste in rxvt, but it sounded like sunburnt needed the text in a script... perhaps I misinterpreted
Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 13:14
by Flash
I copied this from a rxvt window, then pasted it into the forum compose window by simultaneously clicking the left- and right- click buttons after highlighting the text in rxvt, and clicking them again in the empty compose window:
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# growisofs -M /dev/dvd -D -R -l -new-dir-mode 0755 -graft-points dotPets=/tmp/dotPets
Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 17:57
by sunburnt
Flash; You use the middle button ( scroll button ) to paste in rxvt and xterm.
BUT... The copy text
HAS to be highlighted...
Not copied...
You can paste into rxvt, from rxvt, and within rxvt this way.
Why it behaves this why is beyond comprehension.
technosaurus is correct though...
I need a script to be able to read the text being displayed in rxvt,
so in the usual Linux fashion redirecting to a file is probably needed.
technosaurus; I tried these: ( "-I" gives info )
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vobcopy -f -o /mnt/sda6/v/bicentennialMan.vob |tail -1 > /tmp/vobTEST
rxvt -e vobcopy -f -o /mnt/sda6/v/bicentennialMan.vob |tail -1 > /tmp/vobTEST
rxvt -e vobcopy -f -o /mnt/sda6/v/bicentennialMan.vob |tail -1 2> /tmp/vobTEST
rxvt -e vobcopy -f -o /mnt/sda6/v/bicentennialMan.vob > /tmp/vobTEST
rxvt runs vobcopy and creates the file: /tmp/vobTEST but the file is empty.
I tried it without "|tail -1" just to simplify it and it did the same thing.
I don`t recall this ever being done, there`s lots of uses for it though...
Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 18:16
by Flash
sunburnt wrote:Flash; You use the middle button ( scroll button ) to paste in rxvt and xterm.
But I don't
have a middle button.
(Simultaneously clicking both the left and right mouse buttons does the same thing as clicking a middle button, if you have one.)
Anyway, I finally understood what you meant. As usual, I was way off target.
Posted: Thu 11 Feb 2010, 14:11
by technosaurus
if you could post the output you want to get at, it would be easier to help
just do
vobcopy ... >output 2>errors
There is an example in woo-ff for grepping the resolution using ffmpeg