Python RegEx One-Liner in a Pipe – Remove Hard Line Wrapping – No Perl

Just put Python in your pipe and let Perl rest in peace. Python can be used as a one-liner in a pipe. Replacing text with a regular expression used to be the last holdout of perl, but now you can … Continue reading

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Capture Program Output on Python – subprocess.check_output()

Run an external program, capture output. With pipe support. Prequisites: command line, Python hello world. One Liner Well, two lines if you count module import. Try it out in a python console: $ python >>> import subprocess >>> subprocess.check_output(“echo hello … Continue reading

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