piping scripts to foreground

[plushrib]

hello, i was wondering if there's a way to pipe lolcat into lemonbar?

[RobertZenz]

Lemonbar will exit if stdin is closed, so the process should not close. There are two possible solutions, one could keep repeating the command (might also be useful if the content might change):

while true; do lolcat; sleep 60s; done | lemonbar

Or you could use -p:

  -p Don't close after the data ends

However, I'm not sure how lemonbar handles multiline input.

[plushrib]

lemon bar seems to handle multiline input (at least "do echo"), however their color tags system overrides lolcat for some reason.

lolcat also dosen't work being placed before the command, so i tried reverseing them

~/git/bar/lemonbar | while true; do lolcat; sleep 60s; done

(lemonbar command leads to output because i built it lol)

but it just outputs an empty black screen and outputs echo in terminal instead of the bar

when plugged into an echo command it echos on the terminal instead of the bar

~/git/bar/lemonbar | echo "fart" | while true; do lolcat; sleep 60s; done

[plushrib]

Lolcat uses ansi escape codes to color text. Lemonbar dosent support escape codes, therefore it would be lolcat that would need the patch, not lemonbar.

If there's any way to convert ansi escape codes to hex codes or rgba then lmk.