Re: Piping external commands

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the Python translation for this Bash statement: > > tar cf - "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | bzip2 > "$file".tar.bz2 > > (Ignoring the fact that "tar cjf" also exists...) > > In other words, how does one pipe together arbitrary commands? For piping subcommands check out

Piping external commands

What is the Python translation for this Bash statement: tar cf - "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | bzip2 > "$file".tar.bz2 (Ignoring the fact that "tar cjf" also exists...) In other words, how does one pipe together arbitrary commands? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list