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Generating Barcode Numbers and EAN barcode artwork with GNU barcode

Just a quick little post to remind myself how I did this in a few years time! Given a range of barcode numbers, generate the EAN number and artwork for them on the command-line using GNU barcode.

So we have a range like: 934955400000 - 934955400999 and we need to add the check digit and then generate the artwork.

Firstly we need an actual input file representing all of the barcodes in the range. For that we can just use a bash loop (or several).
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