Chapter 4: Integrating Linux Commands with Click
Alfredo Deza
Python comes with lots of different utilities to interact with a system. Listing directories, getting file information, and even lower-level operations like socket communications. There are situations where these are not sufficient or just not solving the right problem for us. I remember this time I worked with Ceph (a distributed file storage system) and had to interact with different disk utilities. There are quite a few tools to retrieve device information like blkid, lsblk, and parted. They all have some overlap and some distinct features. I had to retrieve some specific information from a device that one tool wouldn’t have and then go to a different tool to retrieve the rest. ...
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