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		sixstringtheory on Sept 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No script is too simple Quickest and dirtiest way I've found, but yes, not idiomatic Python: `subprocess.check_output("grep ^$(whoami) /etc/passwd \| awk -F : '{print $NF}'", shell=True, encoding="utf-8").strip()` I didn't test that particular line, but in general this is how I execute shell pipelines in Python.

yjftsjthsd-h on Sept 22, 2020 [–]

:) I agree that that works, of course, but if we have to use shell=True and just shove the whole thing like that then it loses a rather lot of the "Python" appeal. Still valuable if you need to feed the output into Python, of course.

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