Linux Fu: Mixing Bash and Python

Linux Fu: Mixing Bash and Python

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in another language. I’ll talk about Python, but actually, you can use many different languages with this technique, although you might need a little adaptation, depending on your language of choice.


Of course, you don’t have to do anything special to call another program from a bash script. After all, that’s what it’s mainly used for: calling other programs. However, it isn’t very handy to have your script spread out over multiple files. They can get out of sync and if you want to send it to someone or another machine, you have to remember what to get. It is nicer to have everything in one file.

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The key is to use the often forgotten here document feature of bash. This works best when the program in question is an interpreter like Python.


#!/bin/bash
echo Welcome to our shell script python

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