I am trying to write a python script that will execute a bash script I have on my Windows machine. Up until now I have been using the Cygwin terminal so executing the bash script RunModels.scr has been as easy as ./RunModels.scr
. Now I want to be able to utilize subprocess
of Python, but because Windows doesn't have the built in functionality to handle bash I'm not sure what to do.
I am trying to emulate ./RunModels.scr < validationInput > validationOutput
I originally wrote this:
os.chdir(atm)
vin = open("validationInput", 'r')
vout = open("validationOutput", 'w')
subprocess.call(['./RunModels.scr'], stdin=vin, stdout=vout, shell=True)
vin.close()
vout.close()
os.chdir(home)
But after spending a while trying to figure out why my access was denied, I realized my issue wasn't the file permissions but the fact that I was trying to execute a bash file on Windows in general. Can someone please explain how to execute a bash script with directed input/output on windows using a python script?
Edit (Follow up Question):
Thanks for the responses, I needed the full path to my bash.exe as the first param. Now however, command line calls from within RunModels.scr come back in the python output as command not found
. For example, ls
, cp
, make
. Any suggestions for this?
Follow up #2: I updated my call to this:
subprocess.call(['C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe', '-l', 'RunModels.scr'], stdin=vin, stdout=vout, cwd='C:\\path\\dir_where_RunModels\\')
The error I now get is /usr/bin/bash: RunModels.scr: No such file or directory
.
Using cwd does not seem to have any effect on this error, either way the subprocess is looking in /usr/bin/bash
for RunModels.scr
.
SELF-ANSWERED
I needed to specify the path to RunModels.scr in the call as well as using cwd
.
subprocess.call(['C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe', '-l', 'C:\\path\\dir_where_RunModels\\RunModels.scr'], stdin=vin, stdout=vout, cwd='C:\\path\\dir_where_RunModels\\')
But another problem...
Regardless of specifying cwd
, the commands executed by RunModels.scr
are throwing errors as if RunModels.scr
is in the wrong directory. The script executes, but cp
and cd
throw the error no such file or directory
. If I navigate to where RunModels.scr
is through the command line and execute it the old fashioned way I don't get these errors.