KM writes: > can any linux command be invoked/ executed without using shell (bash) ? > what abt security concerns ?
Yes. See: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html An exerpt: > On Unix, with shell=False (default): In this case, the Popen class uses > os.execvp() to execute the child program. -- Michael Chermside -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list