Friday, December 20, 2002, 1:31:49 PM, you wrote:
BH> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:58, Anton wrote:
>> I have usb keyboard and i need to read events from it with shell script
>> ..
>> How could I (and my script) determine exactly from where to read for this
>> keyboard events?
BH> The normal answer is to use the EVIOCGID ioctl. But you can't do that from a
BH> shell script.
BH> ..
BH> So I guess that you are up for either a helper app, or parsing dmesg.
While parsing dmesg, should I look for lines
input0: blabla
input1: foobar
and when found my device string, take a number after "input" as event
file number ("input0: blabla" = "/dev/input/event0")?
Anyway, thanks, Brad!
(Now I see the linux-usb-users list is more relevant for this probably..)
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