Shell Programming and Scripting

Why do you need to make it a oneliner when the multiliner works just fine.

I'm also using a Python file and need to put the command into something along the lines of commands.getoutput/os.system and just wanted to try to get a one liner in there.

I dont know what you are talking about...unless you provide an example.

I have a Python script where I am running unix commands. In the script I can do something like this:

val = commands.getoutput("/sbin/ifconfig | grep dropped | awk '{split($4, a, \":\"; print a[2]}'").split("\n")

That example runs the command to get the number of dropped packets and assigns that value to val. I probably wouldn't use commands.getoutput for the sed command I had originally posted about since I actually just want to run that command in the Python script without getting any sort of value returned, but that should give you an idea of what I am looking to do...I hope.

Hi.
Use a multiline string literal:

Code:

python -c '
from subprocess import call
command = r"""
echo It is a very \
long command
echo "Not really but it could
be"
"""
call(command, shell=True)
'

You can embed python variables using standard python techniques - "%" or "string.Template" or the newest string format possibility.