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What is the best way to verify the output of the run() command?

Asked by Hitesh Shah

I am a first time user of Sikuli. I have searched across the www but I haven't found an example of how to look for and grab a few things from the output of a command and assign them to variables. For example the output of the show interface commands has a lot of details of which I am interested only on the state of the interface (UP or DOWN), the input counter and the output counter.

Appreciate your help.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

Using Sikuli features for that is overkill, since you would need the not very reliable OCR feature.

simply pipe the command output to a file and just process it.

… or from inside a script use:
result = run("someCommand parm1 parm2")
print result

result contains the textual output that the command produced on stdout AND stderror

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Hitesh Shah (hitesh-shah) said : 		#2

Thank you so much for your reply.
For an end to end test, I have to run some browser related activity on one window andsome command line application on another window. I was hoping Sikuli would beable to do this easily. Are there any other ways like use another tool within Sikulithat can achieve this better?

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> Your question #264175 on Sikuli changed:
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> RaiMan proposed the following answer:
> Using Sikuli features for that is overkill, since you would need the
> not very reliable OCR feature.
>
> simply pipe the command output to a file and just process it.
>
> … or from inside a script use:
> result = run("someCommand parm1 parm2")
> print result
>
> result contains the textual output that the command produced on stdout
> AND stderror
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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

I do not understand, what should be such complicated about that.

in the script where you access the browser window, just issue the run(…) and textually process, what you get back (see #1).

Fiddling around with a command line window is far more complicated than this.

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Hitesh Shah (hitesh-shah) said : 		#4

My question is for a command line window.If I issue a command:
result = run("someCommand parm1 parm2")
What is the best way to read 3 - 4 words out of a 10 line output provided by the run command?
Thanks Much.
-Hitesh
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> Your question #264175 on Sikuli changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/264175
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> RaiMan proposed the following answer:
> I do not understand, what should be such complicated about that.
>
> in the script where you access the browser window, just issue the run(…)
> and textually process, what you get back (see #1).
>
> Fiddling around with a command line window is far more complicated than
> this.
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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#5

It is really hard to understand your questions, since things you are saying are not fitting together:

-- My question is for a command line window

-- If I issue a command: result = run("someCommand parm1 parm2")

the run() feature has nothing to do with a command window.
You use the run() internally in a script, to create a subprocess, that runs the given command and returns the output of stdout and eventually stderror textually with the return value (in this case it is available in the variable result)

example

# test.sikuli
result = run("dir")
print result

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Hitesh Shah (hitesh-shah) said : 		#6

Thanks Raiman! Problem Solved.