shell.py 0.4.0

Shell power for Python.

Bring the good part of Shell scripting to Python.

Install

$ pip install shell.py

Usage

Execute a shell command

Block until return:

>>> from shell import ex
>>> ex('echo hello shell.py').stdout()
'hello shell.py\n'

Asynchronous execution:

>>> from shell import ex
>>> c = asex('echo hello shell.py')
>>> # do something else
...
>>> c.stdout() # wait until process exit and read stdout
'hello shell.py\n'

Pipe commands

from shell import ex
re = (ex('ifconfig')
      | 'grep -A 1 eth0'
      | 'grep inet'
      | 'awk "{print $2}"'
      | 'cut -d: -f 2').stdout()

Or

from shell import pipe_all
re = pipe_all(['ls -la ~',
               'awk "{print $9}"',
               'grep -E "^\."',
               'wc -l']).stdout()

Use string as stdin

>>> from shell import instream
>>> instream('1 2 3').p('awk "{print $1}"').stdout()
'1\n'

This is equivalent to:

>>> from shell import ex
>>> ex('echo 1 2 3').p('awk "{print $1}"').stdout()

IO redirect

Overwrite a file:

>>> from shell import ex
>>> ex('echo yolo').wr('/tmp/out')
>>> ex('echo yolo') > '/tmp/out'

Append to a file:

>>> from shell import ex
>>> ex('echo yolo').ap('/tmp/out')
>>> ex('echo yolo') >> '/tmp/out'

Run commands in parallel

Block until all commands return:

>>> from shell import parallel as par
>>> par.ex_all(['sleep 2', 'sleep 2']) # return in 2s

Asynchronous parallel execution:

>>> from shell import parallel as par
>>> pe = par.asex_all(['sleep 2', 'sleep 2']) # return immediately
>>> # do something else
...
>>> pe.wait()

See test cases for more examples.

Tests

Run tests with nosetests(at least v1.3.0):

$ make test