Klaas Freitag wrote: > > hello, > > I like to propose two small patches to the sane utilities scanimage and > sane-find-scanner, which do some minor changes to the output of both tools. > Please add it to cvs if you like. >
Klaas, I like the idea. But perhaps we could add only one option (let's call it "-f"), which would need a format parameter, like so: for the same output as from scanimage -L: scanimage -f="device '%d' is a %v %m %t" to get the same output as with your proposal for scanimage -s: scanimage -f='"%d" "%v" "%m" "%t"' to get the same output as with your variant "scanimage -S": scanimage -f='DEVICE_FILE[%i]='%s'; DEVICE_VENDOR[%i]="%v"; DEVICE_MODEL[%i]="%m"; DEVICE_TYPE[%i]="%t"' This would allow not only eval usage with bash, but might make scripting with other languages easier too. Abel > The change to scanimage does nothing else but changes the output format > of the results of scanimage -L. While scanimage -L would for example > print > device `umax:/dev/sg0' is a UMAX Astra 2200 flatbed scanner > > scanimage -s prints > "umax:/dev/sg0" "UMAX " "Astra 2200 " "flatbed scanner" > > and scanimage -S prints > DEVICE_FILE[0]="umax:/dev/sg0"; DEVICE_VENDOR[0]="UMAX "; \ > DEVICE_MODEL[0]="Astra 2200 "; DEVICE_TYPE[0]="flatbed scanner" > > both are easily to parse in shell scripts, scanimage -S produces bash > syntax directly. > > A quite similar change I would propose for sane-find-scanner: > A switch -s switches sane-find-scanner to silent mode, which produces > a more compressed output: > > /space/temp/sane:$ sane-find-scanner -s > /dev/sg0 SCSI "scanner" "UMAX" "Astra 2200" > > Both changes were done to make development of graphical installation > tools for sane easier, because scanimage can be used to detect scanners > already configured with sane, while sane-find-scanner is able to print > out scan devices not yet configured for sane. > > Regards, > > Klaas > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ja mach nur einen Plan und sei ein grosses Licht Klaas Freitag > dann mach noch einen zweiten Plan * mail frei...@suse.de > gehn tun sie beide nicht. - B. Brecht SuSE Labs, Nuernberg > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: sane-backends-1.0.6.dif > sane-backends-1.0.6.dif Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN) > Encoding: BASE64
