execute command and get output python
# You can use following commands to run any shell command. I have used them on ubuntu. import os os.popen('your command here').read() # Note: This is deprecated since python 2.6. Now you must use subprocess.Popen. Below is the example import subprocess p = subprocess.Popen("Your command", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] print p.split("n")