[Tutor] Popen help?

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, VanL wrote:

> I'm trying to get the output of a script that prints to stdout.  The 
> problem is, the script is on another server.
> 
> Can I use popen to ssh to another server, run a command, and get the
> output?

Yes, we can use popen() with ssh.


Many people don't realize that the 'ssh' command can be used like 'rsh',
so we can do something like this:

###
>>> import os
>>> my_bash_profile = os.popen('ssh aztec ls -l .bash_profile').read()
>>> my_bash_profile
'-rw-r--r--    1 dyoo     users         354 Aug 23 12:04 .bash_profile\n
###


Hope this helps!