I have a python script that needs to be run in an interactive shell (it monitors for certain cancel key input events, which i dont need). I want to execute this script in the background, grab its output, then kill it after 5 seconds.
gnome-terminal -- "./script.sh > log.log"
or gnome-terminal -x bash -c "./script.sh > log.log"
doesnt work, because it's not an interactive shell...
I am using a standard ubuntu 1804 setup. How can i execute this script in an input-enabled terminal?
I believe using the subprocess library will help in what you want to do.
Here's an example (according to the question):
import subprocess
import shlex
command = shlex.split("<your command to run the script>")
process = subprocess.Popen(command)
try:
outs, errs = process.communicate(timeout=5)
except TimeoutExpired:
process.kill()
outs, errs = process.communicate()
# Now you can write the output into a file, like so:
with open("path_to_log_file", "w") as log_file:
f.write(outs)
Here's the docs for the subproecss library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html
I hope this answer was helpful :)
