Question

I have a shell script which runs a python program which has its own parameters:

#!/bin/bash
python blah.py var1 var2
./run key

I need to find a way to retrieve the contents of key from the python program. I have tried just making the python program return the value, and then doing :

key=python blah.py var1 var2

in my shell script, but that didn’t work because it stated key was “outside the function”.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use this

key=`python blah.py var1 var2`
./run $key