44 lines
1.6 KiB
Python
44 lines
1.6 KiB
Python
import os
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import shlex
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import subprocess
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import logging
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def execute(cmd, wait=True, ignore_errors=False, include_stderr=False, env=None):
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"""Executes a commandline utility and returns its output
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:param cmd: the command (as string) to execute, returns the program's output
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:param wait: set to True to wait for command completion, False to return immediately, defaults to True
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:param ignore_errors: set to True to return a string when an exception is thrown, otherwise might throw, defaults to False
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:param include_stderr: set to True to include stderr output in the return value, defaults to False
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:param env: provide a dict here to specify a custom execution environment, defaults to None
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:raises RuntimeError: the command either didn't exist or didn't exit cleanly, and ignore_errors was set to False
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:return: output of cmd, or stderr, if ignore_errors is True and the command failed
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:rtype: string
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"""
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args = shlex.split(cmd)
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logging.debug(cmd)
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try:
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proc = subprocess.Popen(
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args,
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stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
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stderr=subprocess.STDOUT if include_stderr else subprocess.PIPE,
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env=env,
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)
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except FileNotFoundError as e:
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raise RuntimeError("{} not found".format(cmd))
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if wait:
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out, _ = proc.communicate()
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if proc.returncode != 0:
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err = "{} exited with code {}".format(cmd, proc.returncode)
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if ignore_errors:
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return err
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raise RuntimeError(err)
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return out.decode("utf-8")
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return ""
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# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
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