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| Not Working In Subprocess.call

Whenever I use a command in a subprocess with "|" in it doesn't work it has an output of Command "|" is unknown, try "in link help". Or when I put this:

#!/usr/bin/python
from subprocess import call
from shlex import split

interface = call(split("ip -o link show | awk '{print $2}' | grep wl"))

It is giving the output of: 

Error: either "dev" is duplicate, or "awk" is a garbage.
Solution

  • You can use subprocess.check_output method and Popen class though I wasn't able to chain both pipe operations. Partial solution:

    from subprocess import check_output, Popen, PIPE
from shlex import split

process = Popen(split('ip -o link show'), stdout=PIPE)
output = check_output(('awk', '{print $2}'), stdin=process.stdout)
return_code = process.wait()
print(output, return_code)

    So basically, awk is taking the process standard output, and result is saved in the output variable.