Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

["Michael Sacco" <msacco01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is probably either very simple or impossible. If I have a script
(Perl, 
> Python, whatever), is it possible to execute an external command (say,
tar 
> - -vt) and pipe the output from stdout into the script I'm currently
running? I 
> don't see the syntax to do it, but I figured the gurus here would no
for 
> sure.

> tia
> - ---Michael

I can't tell you exactly how to do that, but I can tell you a work
around that I used.  In python I used the system() method to run a
command, eg. system("ls -la > /tmp/ls.txt") redirecting it into
/tmp/ls.txt as shown.  Then I open the file using python, parse it, and
then delete it when I'm done.  For my project this was fine as the file
it made in tmp was extremely small ( > 1k).