[Tutor] Issuing Linux commands

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> Is there a way to issue Linux commands -- ls, mkdir, mv, cp, mc, ...,
> from within python?

You can use the os.system() call or the popen() functions or 
the commands module. All of these execute the command as a 
separate process.

However things like mkdir, mv, cp etc are often better done within 
a script using Python equivalent commands.
(Better => faster, less memory etc)

See the documentation for:

glob
os
os.path

for many common commands that exist as Python functions.

Alan g.
Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld