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| 1 | """Execute shell commands via os.popen() and return status, output. |
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| 3 | Interface summary: |
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| 5 | import commands |
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| 7 | outtext = commands.getoutput(cmd) |
| 8 | (exitstatus, outtext) = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd) |
| 9 | outtext = commands.getstatus(file) # returns output of "ls -ld file" |
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| 11 | A trailing newline is removed from the output string. |