subprocess: xterm -c cat, need to send data to cat and have it displayed in the xterm window

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Jul 12 02:27:05 EDT 2016


On Tuesday 12 July 2016 13:20, Veek. M wrote:

> Script grabs some image data and runs imagemagick on it to extract some
> chinese. Then tesseract OCR to get the actual unicode.
> 
> I then need to get it translated which also works and then display in
> XTerm using cat.

Why not just print it? Why do you have to use cat? That sounds like "Useless 
use of cat" to me:

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Steve




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