Hi Folks, I'm working on a script that executes a command with arbitrary options. Most of its options works fine with subprocess, but at least one (as far as I know) is giving me a headache. The program that I'm trying to execute is Nmap, and the problematic option is the -iL, that is used to indicate a file with the targets that nmap should scan.
If I open my terminal, and write: nmap -iL "/tmp/target_list" , nmap picks the file, read it and scan every target written inside it. But, if I try to use the same scan on my command execution script, it makes nmap raise a strange error: "Failed to open input file "/home/adriano/umit/test/targets" for reading QUITTING!" This is not a permission issue. I put this target_file file on /tmp and set chmod 777 on it. The script: <code> _stdout_handler = open(self.stdout_output, "w+") _stderr_handler = open(self.stderr_output, "w+") command = ['nmap', '-T', 'Aggressive', '-n', '-F', '-iL', '"/home/adriano/umit/test/targets"'] command_process = Popen(command, bufsize=1, stdin=PIPE, stdout=_stdout_handler.fileno(), stderr=_stderr_handler.fileno(), shell=False) </code> The problem seens to be the double quoted path. But it doesn't make any sense for me, as any other command that I put there works fine. Any clue? Cheeers! -- Adriano Monteiro Marques http://umit.sourceforge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list