scriptine.shell – call other shell commands

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Calling shell commands

scriptine.shell.call(command)

Call command. command should be a list of the executable and all arguments.

>>> call(['some_command', '-v', some_argument]) 

Returns:return code of the command

scriptine.shell.sh(command)

Call command in a new shell. command should be a string with all arguments.

>>> call('some_command -v arg') 

Returns:return code of the command

scriptine.shell.backtick(command)

Call command and return the stdout from the command call as a string.

scriptine.shell.backtick_(command)

Like backtick function, but the command will be called even in dry-run mode.