Re: [Tutor] Using Linux commands

[Magnus Lycka]

> >>> os.system('slapadd -l ldif-file.txt')
> 
> It works! Thanks a lot!

But that won't transfer the ouput from your 
command into the python script.

if you do:

import os
file_list = os.popen('ls').readlines()

you will get the result of 'ls' into the
variable file_list, and can work with that
in Python.

If you need access to stdin and stderr as
well as stdout, it gets a little more
complicated, but it's certainly doable.

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