hi;
in general: how can i pass a string containing a concatenated sequcne of
command line arguments to a unix system CLI?
my specific problem:
i have an executable that is called xyz (written in C if that matters)
that i cannot modify, which prints it is text output to the screen and
takes an input as t.txt.
on a unix terminal, i do the ./xyz t.txt > tmp.txt
so that the tmp.txt will contain the output of the xyz executable
i tried the following but it did not work
import os
os.execl("./xyz","t.txt > tmp.txt") #the thing just hangs there
i aslo tried
os.execl("./xyz","t.txt") # but it does not output anything to the
screen either, hangs there too
any suggestions?
thanks
m.smadi
in general: how can i pass a string containing a concatenated sequcne of
command line arguments to a unix system CLI?
my specific problem:
i have an executable that is called xyz (written in C if that matters)
that i cannot modify, which prints it is text output to the screen and
takes an input as t.txt.
on a unix terminal, i do the ./xyz t.txt > tmp.txt
so that the tmp.txt will contain the output of the xyz executable
i tried the following but it did not work
import os
os.execl("./xyz","t.txt > tmp.txt") #the thing just hangs there
i aslo tried
os.execl("./xyz","t.txt") # but it does not output anything to the
screen either, hangs there too
any suggestions?
thanks
m.smadi