Cant use grep in subprocess command

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I'm having a problem with my subprocess command, I like to grep out the lines that match with "Online" line.

def run_command(command): p = subprocess.Popen(command,shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) return iter(p.stdout.readline, b'') command = 'mosquitto_sub -u example -P example -t ITT/# -v | grep "Online" '.split() for line in run_command(command): print(line)

But I will get an error

Error: Unknown option '|'. Use 'mosquitto_sub --help' to see usage.

But when running with linux shell

user@server64:~/Pythoniscriptid$ mosquitto_sub -u example -P example -t ITT/# -v | grep "Online" ITT/C5/link Online ITT/IoT/tester55/link Online ITT/ESP32/TEST/link Online

I also tried shell = True, but with no success, because I will get another error, that dosen't recognize the topic ITT/#

Error: You must specify a topic to subscribe to. Use 'mosquitto_sub --help' to see usage.

The "possible dublicate" didn't help me at all, So I think I'm having a different problem. I tried to change code to this, put in not getting any return

def run_command(command,command2): p1 = subprocess.Popen(command,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) p2 = subprocess.Popen(command2,stdin=p1.stdout,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) return iter(p2.stdout.readline,'') command = 'mosquitto_sub -u example -P example -t ITT/# -v'.split() command2 = 'grep Online'.split() #subprocess.getoutput(command) for line in run_command(command,command2): print(line)

Possible duplicate of Python - how to execute shell commands with pipe? — saj
– saj, Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 9:51
@Maroun getting error / usr / bin / test: / usr / bin / test: binary can not be started — Godhaze
– Godhaze, Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 10:26

phihag · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-24 13:02:06Z

When you split the text, the list will look like

['mosquitto_sub', ..., 'ITT/#', '-v', '|', 'grep', '"Online"']

When you pass this list to subprocess.Popen, a literal '|' will be one of the arguments to mosquitto_sub.

If you use shell=True, you must escape any special characters like # in the command, for instance with double quotes:

import subprocess command = 'echo -e "ITT/#\\ni am Online\\nbar Online\\nbaz" | grep "Online" ' p = subprocess.Popen( command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) for line in iter(p.stdout.readline, b''): print(line)

Alternatively, connect the pipes as you wrote, but make sure to iterate until b'', not u'':

import subprocess def run_command(command, command2): p1 = subprocess.Popen(command,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) p2 = subprocess.Popen(command2,stdin=p1.stdout,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) return iter(p2.stdout.readline, b'') command = ['echo', '-e', 'ITT/#\\ni am Online\\nbar Online\\nbaz'] command2 = 'grep Online'.split() for line in run_command(command,command2): print(line)

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