Python: get output of the shell command 'history'
linux, python, shell, terminal, ubuntu
Solution
why don't you read the file directly. ~/.bash_history
for history in open('/home/user/.bash_history'):
print(history, end='')
Problem
My end goal is capture the previous command executed in the terminal. Since ~/.bash_history doesn't include commands from the current terminal session, I can't simply read that file. From another thread, I found this script: ``` from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT shell_command = 'bash -i -c "history -r; history"' event = Popen(shell_command, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT) output = event.communicate() ``` That's pretty close to what I'm looking for, but it also will not include the history from the current terminal session since it's started as a subprocess. Is there any way to execute a similar command in the current shell?