Re: subprocess.Popen and replacing the shell pipe line

09-22-2005

Probably the quoting of the argument to grep.
try this instead:
> p1 = Popen(['grep', 'Sep 22', '/var/log/auth.log'], stdout=PIPE)
etc

Jeff

09-23-2005

by the way, you're re-inventing the wheel somewhat, check out the
stdlib pipes module (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pipes.html)

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