./my_eth_script.pl eth0 M >> a.txt How can i run this command with subprocess.popen
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:06:05 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Clove wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a perl script named "my_eth-traffic.pl" which calculates the tx > and rx speed of the Ethernet interface in Mb. > > > > I want to run this script from another script and want the output in > other file. > > So i wrote the following script but not getting the output. > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > > import sys > > import subprocess > > import datetime > > import os > > import time > > > > comand8 = "/root/Desktop/my_eth-traffic.pl eth0 M" > > From Popen docs > https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen > > > Note in particular that options and arguments that are separated by > whitespace in the shell go in separate list elements, while arguments that > need > quoting or backslash escaping when used in the shell (such as filenames... > > So (I guess) you should try > comand8 = ["/root/Desktop/my_eth-traffic.pl", "eth0", "M"] > Or better > comand8 = ["perl", "/root/Desktop/my_eth-traffic.pl", "eth0", "M"] > containing spaces or the echo command shown above) are single list > elements. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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