How to store the result of an executed shell command in a variable in python? [duplicate]

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Use the subprocess module instead:

import subprocess
output = subprocess.check_output("cat syscall_list.txt | grep f89e7000 | awk '{print $2}'", shell=True)

Edit: this is new in Python 2.7. In earlier versions this should work (with the command rewritten as shown below):

import subprocess
output = subprocess.Popen(['awk', '/f89e7000/ {print $2}', 'syscall_list.txt'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]

As a side note, you can rewrite

cat syscall_list.txt | grep f89e7000

To

grep f89e7000 syscall_list.txt

And you can even replace the entire statement with a single awk script:

awk '/f89e7000/ {print $2}' syscall_list.txt

Leading to:

import subprocess
output = subprocess.check_output(['awk', '/f89e7000/ {print $2}', 'syscall_list.txt'])

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