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		oguz-ismail 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curious case of shell commands, or how "this b... > The Python code Kragen gave is more characters to type, but fewer footguns. What are the footguns in this? `df \| grep /$`

hollerith 10 months ago | [–]

There are none AFAIK.

Allow me to correct my previous comment: using Python's os.spawnlp or Popen to invoke Unix commands has fewer footguns than using the shell. (Kragen's code only addresses your question of how to set up a pipeline in Python.)

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