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Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script

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* suresh (Fri, 27 May 2011 14:25:52 -0700 (PDT))
> I want to execute the following command line stuff from inside python. 
> $cd directory
> $./executable
> 
> I tried the following but I get errors
> import subprocess
> subprocess.check_call('cd dir_name;./executable')
> 
> Due to filename path issues, I cannot try this version.
> subprocess.check_call('./dir_name/executable')

os.chdir?

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changing current dir and executing a shell script suresh <suresh.amritapuri@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 14:25 -0700
  Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-05-28 00:18 +0200
  Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-27 18:19 -0400
    Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-05-28 09:41 +0200
      Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-28 17:52 -0400

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