I've tried what's told in How to force /bin/bash interpreter for oneliners
By doing
os.system('GREPDB="my command"')
os.system('/bin/bash -c \'$GREPDB\'')
However no luck, unfortunately I need to run this command with bash and subp isn't an option in this environment, I'm limited to python 2.4. Any suggestions to get me in the right direction?
Both commands are executed in different subshells.
Setting variables in the first system
call does not affect the second system
call.
You need to put two command in one string (combining them with ;
).
>>> import os
>>> os.system('GREPDB="echo 123"; /bin/bash -c "$GREPDB"')
123
0
NOTE You need to use "$GREPDB"
instead of '$GREPDBS'
. Otherwise it is interpreted literally instead of being expanded.
If you can use subprocess
:
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call('/bin/bash -c "$GREPDB"', shell=True,
... env={'GREPDB': 'echo 123'})
123
0
The solution below still initially invokes a shell, but it switches to bash for the command you are trying to execute:
os.system('/bin/bash -c "echo hello world"')
I use this:
subprocess.call(["bash","-c",cmd])
//OK, ignore this because I have not notice subprocess not considered.
Is it possible, for you, to change the default shell of the user who starts the application ?
You could try to use chsh
to do it.
I searched this command for some days and found really working code:
import subprocess
def bash_command(cmd):
subprocess.Popen(['/bin/bash', '-c', cmd])
code="abcde"
// you can use echo options such as -e
bash_command('echo -ne "'+code+'"')
Output:
abcde
subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, executable='/bin/bash')