invoice VS ZXing

> Unsurprisingly I disagree with the post's description of awk being an "advanced command".

I think it can be pretty advanced, for me awk is one of those tools where I still feel like I need to write a paragraph of comments to explain 1 line of code.

For example: https://github.com/nickjj/invoice/blob/master/invoice#L11-L3...

Keep in mind I don't really "know" awk. I cobbled that together from a few examples.

NOTE: I wrote that script 3.5 years ago and I know there's questionable patterns in other areas of the script that's not highlighted like using a bunch of separate echo calls instead of a heredoc.

A whole bunch of little things, mainly command line tools.

Most of them are open source and also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them.

In no specific order:

- https://github.com/nickjj/notes

- https://github.com/nickjj/invoice

- https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until

And a few recent little scripts to solve specific things:

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-ffmpeg-to-get-an-mp3s-d...

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-shell-script-to-keep-a-bunc...

- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...

The biggest difference between the two plugins is the SDK used to recognise the barcodes. The Capacitor Community Barcode Scanner plugin currently uses the ZXing decoder and the Capacitor ML Kit Barcode Scanning plugin uses the ML Kit from Google.

This is using Excel, but it is still VBA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIFjw8z__dI they're utilizing a third-party library called ZXing which is available on GitHub https://github.com/zxing/zxing

I'm sure it works, but thezxing github project appears in maintenance mode, so I'm not sure i should use it in a new project

PyXing (website here) is supposedly a Python port of the popular Java ZXing library, but the initial and only commit is 6 years old and the project has no readme or documentation whatsoever.