getting output from a command into a list to work with

[Anthony Irwin]

Hi All,

I would like to run the command below and have each line from the
output stored as an element in a list.

find /some/path/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -1 '{}' \

The reason for this is so I can then work on each file in the
following manner

var = command

for i in var:
# do stuff to file code here

not sure the best way to get the output of the command so each line of
output is one element in the list.

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Anthony Irwin

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[Peter Otten]

Anthony Irwin wrote:

I would like to run the command below and have each line from the
output stored as an element in a list.

find /some/path/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -1 '{}' \

The reason for this is so I can then work on each file in the
following manner

var = command

for i in var:
# do stuff to file code here

not sure the best way to get the output of the command so each line of
output is one element in the list.

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

for line in Popen("find ...", shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout:
# do stuff

or if you don't need shell expansion

for line in Popen(["find", "/some/path", ...], stdout=PIPE).stdout:
# do stuff

See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html for more.

Peter