How to use `subprocess` command with pipes

Question

I want to use subprocess.check_output() with ps -A | grep \'process_name\'. I tried various solutions but so far nothing worked. Can someone guide

Answer 1

After Python 3.5 you can also use:

    import subprocess

    f = open('test.txt', 'w')
    process = subprocess.run(['ls', '-la'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
    f.write(process.stdout)
    f.close()

The execution of the command is blocking and the output will be in process.stdout.