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open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:21 pm
by desmondttm123
Hi guys! i wanted to create an exe command on desktop using chmod. i want to run the raspberry pi camera command raspistill -o image.jpg command and i want a command to open the file in full screen. I'm using a tft screen so i don't know how to enable preview for the image taken. is there a command to open files via terminal? thanks!

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:58 pm
by bubbl

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:05 pm
by jamesh
desmondttm123 wrote:Hi guys! i wanted to create an exe command on desktop using chmod. i want to run the raspberry pi camera command raspistill -o image.jpg command and i want a command to open the file in full screen. I'm using a tft screen so i don't know how to enable preview for the image taken. is there a command to open files via terminal? thanks!
I use fbi on the command line to display jpegs.

sudo apt-get install fbi

Not tried with the desktop, just from the terminal (no X running)

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:17 pm
by desmondttm123
thanks for the replies! but how do i use FBI as command in terminal?

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:18 pm
by redhawk
Is this local terminal or via ssh??

Richard S.

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:31 pm
by desmondttm123
hi! it is local =)

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:31 pm
by bubbl
desmondttm123 wrote:thanks for the replies! but how do i use FBI as command in terminal?
it's all there on the internet. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gut ... fbi.1.html

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:45 pm
by jamesh
desmondttm123 wrote:thanks for the replies! but how do i use FBI as command in terminal?
fbi name.jpg

(I'm pretty sure you could have guessed that).

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:48 pm
by desmondttm123
hi thanks for the links!
i installed fbi, and wrote it on chmod but still did not work. if the directory is root > home > pi, do i have to include it? if so how?

my command inside the chmod is
/*
raspistill -o image.jpg
fbi -h image.jpg
*/

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:49 pm
by desmondttm123
fbi name.jpg

(I'm pretty sure you could have guessed that).
yes i did =)

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:03 pm
by bubbl
desmondttm123 wrote:hi thanks for the links!
i installed fbi, and wrote it on chmod but still did not work. if the directory is root > home > pi, do i have to include it? if so how?

my command inside the chmod is
/*
raspistill -o image.jpg
fbi -h image.jpg
*/
you need to learn bash programming for that. a little bit different coding

the simplest code should look something like this (I haven't tested it as I don't use raspicamera, but it should work):

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#!/bin/bash
while true
do
    echo "Enter a file name"
    read filename
    raspistill -o $filename
    sleep 10
    fbi -h $filename
done
save it as let's say raspidisplay.sh
chmod 775
and run ./raspidisplay.sh

Re: open and view files via terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:08 pm
by bubbl
a little bit about bash scripting: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html