Fooman <fe*@fee.com> wrote in message news:<18******************************@news.terane ws.com>...
lower: not found
I want it to run "lower" just like it would if I typed "lower" at the
bash prompt. How can I do that?
The problem is that the 'lower' script is not in the path that
the python interpreter knows about. You can do:
os.system("/my/nonstandard/pathto/lower")
or, if you are using Linux, or similar, you can try
making sure that your $PATH variable is getting set to
include the path to your script in the environment that
the python interpreter gets launched in.
So, what platform are you running under, and what is the
path to your 'lower' script, and what are the contents
of your $PATH variable?
Tobiah
You can use the standard windows Python distribution with
a little trick. First of all make sure you can start 'lower'
from a dos console.
To do that, you need a little helper cygwin shell script:
- start cygwin
- cd /bin
- create a cmd2bash script with the following content:
#! /bin/bash
$*
- chmod +x cmd2bash (make it executable)
Then start a console and try out following command:
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\bin\cmd2bash "ls -la"
Do you see the content of drive C:\ in posix style?
You may need to adjust the path to cygwin.
If you have name with spaces (barf) you may need single quotes:
C:\Programme>c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\bin\cmd2bash "ls 'Outlook Express'"
Then try to start your lower script with:
os.system('''c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\bin\cmd2bash "lower"''')
btw: this trick works for msys too
Regards
Carl