DMTXREAD(1)

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💖 dmtxread(1) — but make it a vibe 💖

okay bestie, real talk: this is the manual page for the dmtxread command family (section 1, General Commands Manual), but the star of the show inside is a little tool called dmtxquery. yes, the header said DMTXREAD(1). yes, the NAME says dmtxquery. we contain multitudes 💅 let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

dmtxquery — extract information from dmtxread output 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dmtxquery PROPERTY [OPTION]... [FILE]...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, dmtxquery takes the XML output from dmtxread and pulls information out of it. and not just for one lil barcode — it handles individual or grouped barcode scan results, which is the main character energy we deserve 👑

👑 PROPERTY 👑

these are the properties you can ask for. pick one, bestie, that's the whole point 🫶

  • barcode.count — count of all barcodes found in image
  • barcode.N.BPROP — print BPROP property of Nth barcode
  • message.count — count of all messages found in image
  • message.N.MPROP — print MPROP property of Nth message
  • message.N.barcode.count — count of all barcodes in Nth message
  • message.N.barcode.M — Mth barcode of Nth message, print all
  • message.N.barcode.M.BPROP — Mth barcode of Nth message, print BPROP

🍓 BPROP — barcode properties 🍓

the barcode-side property menu, served fresh:

  • message
  • message_number
  • message_position
  • matrix_size
  • data_codewords
  • error_codewords
  • rotation
  • data_regions_count
  • interleaved_blocks

🧚 MPROP — message properties 🧚

and the message-side menu, equally slay:

  • message
  • data_codeword
  • error_codeword

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -V, --version — Print program version information. (like, who are you? what era are you from? iconic.)
  • --help — Display this help message and quit.

🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

  • ISO/IEC 16022:2000
  • ANSI/AIM BC11 ISS

certified, standardized, gorgeous. periodt 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

Email bug reports to mike@dragonflylogic.com

not me begging you to actually email the bug instead of just screaming into the void. fr fr, send the email 🙈

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Mike Laughton

okay that's the whole page, bestie — and a lil cute sign-off for you: this one lives in the General Commands Manual (that's the source, section 1 energy), and the date on the bottom line was June 2, 2011. vintage. retro. still hits. 🎀✨💖

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