read Linux terminal output using Python's sub process module

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I am running a python on Linux terminal and it requires some bash commands to run while the test is running. So, I am using the subprocess module and running my test commands (bash script). These so-called bash commands might print something on the CLI which I need to know if it does while I am running my python code in parallel.

for Ex :

# running my python TCP server 

subprocess.call(['.\run_some_shell_commands.sh'],shell=True)

while True:
   # I am doing some other python stuff 

   if (CLI_HAS_SOME_OUTPUT_DETECTED):
       #record the output to some variable 


   # doing some more python stuff

If I know for sure that run_some_shell_commands.sh returns some output for sure, I could simply use A = subprocess.checkoutput(['.\run_some_shell_commands.sh'],shell=True) which would save its output in variable A ..

Is there any way to grab the last n lines of the terminal ?? so that I can check if that event has occurred and I can assign that to CLI_HAS_SOME_OUTPUT_DETECTED

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Saira

You're going to need to capture stdout or stderr, which you can do with capture_output=True. — Alex Huszagh
– Alex Huszagh, Commented Feb 2, 2020 at 16:25
@AlexanderHuszagh Apologies for my late reply.. was trying out different stuff with capture_output .. Want to clarify onething.. the OUTPUT that I am expecting is not from the shell script I'm running.. As far as I understood from the focs , capture_output saves the output of whatever shell commands we are trying to execute .. — Saira
– Saira, Commented Feb 3, 2020 at 16:03
In such case where I am not sure of when that event might happen , I might have to continuously monitor the terminal output for some threshold time and if that happens, I might need to save the text it is printing .. thought of using script command , but the linux box is properitary and is not letting me install any packages — Saira
– Saira, Commented Feb 3, 2020 at 16:11
You can run an ongoing script and pipe the output to something else, where you can continually process it. Think carefully about what you need to do, I deleted my original answer because it might have answered your exact use-case. — Alex Huszagh
– Alex Huszagh, Commented Feb 3, 2020 at 16:16
I tried something like this and it does the job for me (as of now, not sure how good this approach is though ) — Saira
– Saira, Commented Feb 3, 2020 at 16:52

Saira · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-03 16:54:38Z

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import subprocess
import time as t
cmd = [' ']
P = subprocess.check_output(cmd,shell=True)
while True :
        print(P)
        t.sleep(0.1)

answered Feb 3, 2020 at 16:54

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ralf htp · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-02 16:35:16Z

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This is answered in Running shell command and capturing the output. There are two classes of shell commands, executables and inbuilt commands, in some programming languages this can make a difference, see How do I listen for a response from shell command in android studio?

answered Feb 2, 2020 at 16:35

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Saira Over a year ago

thanks ralf.. I think the point was to use the capture_output (in py3+)

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