how to use subprocess.Popen execute "find" in windows

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 07 May 2008 23:29:58 -0300, <clyfish at gmail.com> escribió:

> On 5月7日, 上午9时45分, Justin Ezequiel <justin.mailingli... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On May 6, 5:19 pm, clyf... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > p1 = Popen(['netstat', '-an'], stdout = PIPE)
>> > p2 = Popen(['find',  '"445"'], stdin = p1.stdout, stdout = PIPE)
>> > print p2.stdout.read()
>>
>> > It doesn't work.
>> > Because subprocess.Popen execute "find" like this.
>>
>> > C:\>find \"445\"
>>
>> > It adds a '\' before each '"'.
>> > How to remove the '\'?
>> > Thank you.
>>
>> cannot help with the backslashes but try findstr instead of find
>
> Thank you.
> findstr doesn't need quotes, so it works.

Build the command line yourself -instead of using a list of arguments-. Popen doesn't play with the quotes in that case:

p1 = Popen(['netstat', '-an'], stdout = PIPE) # using list
p2 = Popen('find "445"', stdin = p1.stdout, stdout = PIPE) # using str
print p2.communicate()[0]

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Gabriel Genellina