hi, i'm trying to write a section of my program that needs to run bash builtin alias and declare, i've googled and tried every type of example i could find no to avail. this is what I've tried below and it doesn't work, is there a way for me to execute a bah builin from python? what i need is to take alias output and pipe it to another command with python and return the results to a string or list.
>>> p1=Popen(["alias"],stdout=PIPE) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 621, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1126, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory if i add shell=True i get empty string and no thins error message >>> p1=Popen(["alias"],stdout=PIPE,shell=True) >>> p1 <subprocess.Popen object at 0xb7589a4c> >>> p1.stdout.read() '' thank you, -Alex Goretoy
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