subprocess executing shell

Tim Arnold tim.arnold at sas.com
Thu Oct 22 12:28:45 EDT 2009


"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1840.1256202325.2807.python-list at python.org...
> En Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:24:37 -0300, Tim Arnold <tim.arnold at sas.com> 
> escribió:
>
>> Hi, I'm writing a script to capture a command on the commandline and run 
>> it
>> on a remote server.
>> I guess I don't understand subprocess because the code below exec's the
>> user's .cshrc file even though by default shell=False in the Popen call.
>
> Do you mean it execs the .cshrc file in your *local* system or the 
> *remote* one?
> Popen controls what happens on the local system only.
>
>>         action.insert(0,'rsh my_remotehost')
>>         p = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(' '.join(action)))
>>         p.wait()
>>
>> Since the shell is executing in the child process anyway, is the only
>> difference when using shell=True is that environment variables can be
>> expanded in the command to be executed?
>
> Note that in this case, "the child process" is rsh on the local system. 
> Popen has no control over what happens once rsh starts.
>
> -- 
> Gabriel Genellina

Thanks, I see my mistake now. Arggg, I keep forgetting that one.
thanks,
--Tim Arnold





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