Running shell command and capturing the output in Python

You can use subprocess.run() method of subprocess module to execute and capture the output of a shell command inside a Python script as shown in the below example –

import subprocess

p = subprocess.run(['ls', '-l'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode('utf-8')
print(p)

## Returns the output of ls -l shell command

import subprocess

p = subprocess.run(['ls', '-l'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode('utf-8')

print(p)

## Returns the output of ls -l shell command

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