I am writing a python script which uses os.system command to call a shell script.I need help understanding how I can pass the arguments to the shell script? Below is what I am trying..but it wouldn't work.
os.system('./script.sh arg1 arg2 arg3')
I do not want to use subprocess for calling the shell script. Any help is appreciated.
Place your script and it's args into a string, see example below.
HTH
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
arg3 = 'arg3'
cmd = '/bin/echo arg1 arg2 %s' % arg3
print 'running "%s"' % cmd
os.system(cmd)
If you insert the following line before os.system (...), you will likely see your problem.
print './script.sh arg1 arg2 arg3'
When developing this type of thing, it usually is useful to make sure the command really is what you expect, before you actually try it.
example:
def Cmd():
return "something"
print Cmd()
when you are satisfied, comment out the print Cmd() line and use os.system (Cmd ()) or subprocess version.
