shell-interface 2.1.0

Helpful and convenient utilities to interact with UNIX shells

Shell Interface

A lightweight Python library providing convenient utilities to interact with UNIX shells.

Features

• Execute shell commands safely with error handling
• Pipe the output of one command to another
• Retrieve system user and group information
• Logging support with loguru (if installed)

Usage

Running Shell Commands

from shell_interface import run_cmd

result = run_cmd(cmd=["ls", "-l"], capture_output=True)
print(result.stdout.decode())

Piping Commands

from shell_interface import pipe_pass_cmd_to_real_cmd

result = pipe_pass_cmd_to_real_cmd("echo Hello", ["grep", "Hello"])
print(result.stdout.decode())

Getting User and Group Information

from shell_interface import get_user, get_group

user = get_user()
group = get_group(user)
print(f"User: {user}, Group: {group}")