use lines as argument to a command

[Amit Khemka]

On 10/16/07, Shoryuken <sakradevanamindra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess that you want to loop over a file and for each line in the
> > file you want to call some
> > external program with the line as the argument.
> >
> > Have a look at subprocess module
> >  http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html
> >
> > If there is some else that you meant, please specify .
> >
> Thanks alot, its working now. But I have another question (sorry I'm
> so noob), how can I redirect a command's output to a file (just like
> executing a linux command "dmesg>>stat.txt")?

Since subprocess module allow you to call programs through (linux)
shell , you can use the same syntax in your command.

example:

>>> from subprocess import call
>>> call("echo foo >> bar.txt", shell=True)

Cheers,

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Amit Khemka