Ok so I have code that is supposed to run through a txt file and ping the Ip's if the ping is equal to 0 its does an 'nslookup' on it and then it's supposed to continue but after it does the first one in the terminal it's left on a > as if waiting for input. In other instances, my code runs through the txt file fine but once I added in the 'nslookup' it stops after the first one and waits for input.
Is there a way to make it continue to cycle through the txt file till it gets to the end?
Heres the code I'm using I know there are other ways to do a look up on an Ip address but I'm trying to use 'nslookup' in this case unless its impossible.
import os
with open('test.txt','r') as f:
for line in f:
response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + line)
if response == 0:
print os.system('nslookup')
else:
print(line, "is down!")
that's simply because you forgot to pass the argument to nslookup
When you don't pass any argument, the program starts in interactive mode with its own shell.
L:\so>nslookup
Default server : mydomain.server.com
Address: 128.1.34.82
>
But using os.system won't make you able to get the output of the command. For that you would need
output = subprocess.check_output(['nslookup',line.strip()])
print(output) # or do something else with it
instead of your os.system command