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

[Veek. M]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 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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> 

Yeah, i changed that to 'tail -f' - works much better with tempfile.