In a message of Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:52:56 +0000, David Aldrich writes: >Hi > >I am working on Linux with Python 3.4. > >I want to do a bash diff on two text files and show just the first 20 lines of >diff's output. So I tried: > >>>> cmd = 'head -20 <(diff ' + file1 + ' ' + file2 + ')' >>>> subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
I am reading https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/subprocess.html because my first thought was that shell should be False here. The doc doesn't say. Filing doc bug now. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
