Converting a Shell Script to run under Python

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"Austin Wilson" <wilson.austin.aj at bhp.com.au> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I was hoping someone may be able to help me convert the following Shell
> Script to perform the same functions under python. Basically it just reads a
> filename which is stored in file1 and then renames file2 to that name.

I suspect you'll get several responses in parallel here, but that's
just the spirit of c.l.p :)

> 
> #!/bin/sh
> read name < file1
> mv file2 $name
> rm file1

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
name = open("file1").read()
os.rename("file2",name)
os.remove("file1")

(Remember not to put a newline character after the filename in
file1... :)

> 
> Thanks
> Austin
> 

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