-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 08 October 2003 11:49 pm, dylan wrote: > hi- > > been playing around with using a basic stamp II to collect environmental > data with very minimal setup (CdS cell and capacitor form an RC network, RC > constant is measured by BS II) > [http://surfdavis.no-ip.com/~dylan/light_level.p2.png] > > the BSII sends its data to /dev/ttyS0, and it is read in with the > command'cat /dev/ttyS0 > tmp.light &' . data is parsed by a simple awk > script and then sent to ploticus for a nice plot. the plot is updated by > running a shell script that runs the awk sript and then ploticus. > > this works, but there is no way to associate a time with the data values. i > was thinking that if there was some way to have a bash script read from > /dev/ttyS0 every 10 seconds or so, save the value to a text file along with > a date stamp it would be pretty neat. > > the output from the BSII looks something like this: > light_level|light_level|light_level and so on (the delimiter is a pipe) > > now to the question: does anyone know how to make bash read from a file > (i.e. the serial port) from one pipe until another pipe, and then save the > value in between to a text file?
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