How to use `subprocess` command with pipes

Question

I want to use subprocess.check_output() with ps -A | grep \'process_name\'. I tried various solutions but so far nothing worked. Can someone guide

Answer 1

Or you can always use the communicate method on the subprocess objects.

cmd = "ps -A|grep 'process_name'"
ps = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
output = ps.communicate()[0]
print(output)

The communicate method returns a tuple of the standard output and the standard error.