qrencode is a nice QR code CLI tool for Ubuntu Linux
There’s something fun about QR codes, and I wanted an easy way generate them as SVGs.
Sure enough there’s a tool in the Ubuntu repos to do that:
sudo apt install qrencode
It’s straightforward to use:
qrencode -t SVG -o qr-code.svg 'whatever you want encoded'
I wanted to generate a QR code to put on little business cards that we pack with the orders for our pop up card shop. The QR code should point to a URL including a discount coupon that gets automatically applied for customers who have arrived via that URL.
It’s easy with qrencode:
qrencode -t SVG -o poprobincards-qr-code.svg 'https://www.poprobincards.co.uk/?coupon=popup8'
And the result is a nice SVG QR code:
