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Pratik das baghel
Pratik das baghel

Reputation: 305

Python subprocess assign value to a variable

I am using the following code:

import subprocess
#subprocess.call(["cat","contents.txt"])
command = "VAR=$(cat contents.txt | grep token)"
subprocess.call(command, shell = True)
subprocess.call(["echo","$VAR"])

I am trying to assign value of token present in contents.txt to a variable and i am trying to print the variable. But i am not getting anything. What corrections can be done here.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 790

Answers (1)

Jonathan1609
Jonathan1609

Reputation: 1937

You got to do everything in one process, since os.environ is for the particular python process and subprocess executes your commands in another process, you can't access it from there.

you also can't do it in two different subprocess.call calls since each is another process and you could not access the variable from the second one, therefore you have to execute everything in the same process, all commands at the same line, separated by ";", as follows:

import subprocess
result = subprocess.run('VAR=$(cat contents.txt | grep token); echo $VAR', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
print(result.stdout.decode())

in my contents.txt file I have "token=123", and hence the result of result.stdout.decode() was "token=123" as well :D

Upvotes: 2

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