find command with subprocess not working with out Shell=True

Question

I have below lines in my code. I have embedded a short a line which fetches the list of files that are older than 10 mins. My sub process have been failing with few errors. It s

Answer 1

if it works with shell=True, and not without, that means that the pattern is expanded with shell=True.

To emulate this behaviour just use glob.glob and compose your command argument list like this:

cmd = ['find'] + glob.glob('/myapp/uat/aws/6.3/domains/*/appnodes/*/*/log/bwappnode.log') + ['-type','f','-mmin','+10']

Which could be written very easily in pure python:

import glob,os,time
current = time.time()
old_files = [x for x in glob.glob("/myapp/uat/aws/6.3/domains/*/appnodes/*/*/log/bwappnode.log") if current - os.path.getmtime(x) > 600]