midicat —
send
to or receive from MIDI ports
| midicat |
[-d]
[-i file]
[-o file]
[-q port] |
The
midicat utility receives MIDI data from the
given input MIDI port and/or sends it to the given output MIDI port. The
options are as follows:
- -d
- Dump transferred data in hex on stderr.
-
-i
file
- Read MIDI data from this file instead of receiving it from
the MIDI port. If the option argument is ‘-’ then standard
input will be used.
-
-o
file
- Write MIDI data to this file instead of sending it to the
MIDI port. If the option argument is ‘-’ then standard
output will be used.
-
-q
port
- Use this sndio(7) MIDI port
for input/output. If the option is used twice, the first one specifies the
input port and the second one the output port.
If no files are specified, then
midicat transfers
data from the MIDI input port to the MIDI output port.
Send the given file to
rmidi/0:
$ midicat -i file.syx -q rmidi/0
Dump data received from
rmidi/0 to stderr:
$ midicat -d -q rmidi/0 -o /dev/null
Send data from
rmidi/0 to
midithru/0:
$ midicat -q rmidi/0 -q midithru/0
midi(4),
sndio(7),
sndiod(8)