The problem# Sometimes I have a long video that I only want a shorter section of. Maybe it's a TV show that I want to clip a funny scene out of. Or a video of a concert that I want to clip the individual songs out of so I can put them into my music library. But figuring out exactly where to start...
The problem# Last time, I presented a script read_keypress.sh which would read any single keypress in a shell script. For printable characters, it's straightforward what this means, but for keys like left arrow (🠈), it's not obvious how to deal with them. The solution# keytest.sh demonstrates...
The problem# For certain applications it can be useful to get many quick responses from the computer, so we would like it to react to individual keypresses instead of requiring an entire command to be typed out and confirmed by pressing Enter. While this is a common feature of GUI and TUI toolkits...