Anthony Irwin wrote:
> I would like to run the command below and have each line from the
> output stored as an element in a list.
>
> find /some/path/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -1 '{}' \
>
> The reason for this is so I can then work on each file in the
> following manner
>
> var = command
>
> for i in var:
> # do stuff to file code here
>
> not sure the best way to get the output of the command so each line of
> output is one element in the list.
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
for line in Popen("find ...", shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout:
# do stuff
or if you don't need shell expansion
for line in Popen(["find", "/some/path", ...], stdout=PIPE).stdout:
# do stuff
See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html for more.
Peter
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