Providing data to Python input() from Bash

Question

Given this program named foo.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
foo = input('input foo: ')
print(foo)

How do I run this from foo_test.sh?

Ray Salemi · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 16:24:11Z

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I figured it out so thought I'd post it. Simple, of course:

 % echo 'foodata' | ./foo.py

That does the job.

answered Jan 23, 2018 at 16:24

Ray Salemi

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M. Volf Over a year ago

Another way - make a plain text file input.txt with content "foodata". Then run ./foo.py < input.txt But for one simple line, your approach is a lot easier...

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