The Function Chaining Language

Library

  1. encode.py
  2. fclio.py
  3. fclstd.py
  4. shell.py
  5. webrequest.py

execute_cmd_print

Execute terminal command and print the output.

def execute_cmd_print(cmd):
    print(popen(cmd).read())

find_task_pid

Finds process id using ps ax piped into a grep command. Return the active process id as an integer or false. 

def find_task_pid(task, find):
    r = popen(f'ps ax | grep {task}').read().split('\n') 
    for i in range(len(r)):
        if search(find, r[i]):
            re = r[i].split(' ')
            l = 1
            while re[l] == "":
                l = l + 1        
            return int(re[l])

    return False

execute_mail

Sends email by use of the system mail command. Note that postfix or other system must be installed and configured correctly for this function to work.

def execute_mail(msg, subject, sender, recip):
    popen(f'echo "{msg}" | mail -s "{subject}" From:{sender} {recip}')