Suppose I want to run something like ls a*
using plumbum.
from plumbum.cmd import ls
ls['a*']()
...
ProcessExecutionError: Command line: ['/bin/ls', 'a*']
Exit code: 1
Stderr: | ls: a*: No such file or directory
I understand plumbum automatically escapes the arguments, which is usually a good thing. But is there a way to make it understand glob expressions should be passed to the shell as-is?
But is there a way to make it understand glob expressions should be passed to the shell as-is?
plumbum
passes a*
to ls
command as-is. ls
command doesn't run any shell, so there is no glob expansion (it is done by the shell on *nix).
You could use glob
module to do the expansion:
from glob import glob
ls('-l', *glob('a*'))
Another way is to use Workdir
object:
from plumbum import local
ls('-l', *local.cwd // 'a*')
To defer the call; you could use ls['-l'][args]
syntax (note: there is probably a bug in plumbum 1.1.0
version that requires to convert args
list to a tuple explicitly).
If you want; you could call the shell:
from plumbum.cmd import sh
sh('-c', 'ls -l a*')
Note: Python's glob.glob()
function might produce the glob expansion different from that of the shell.
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