Iterate over few digital certificates with subprocess.check_output - python

I am trying to write a Python script which will use openssl command to output contents of few digital certificates. The problem is that I am not able to loop through the files with the subprocess.check_output([]) function. Here's what I have got so far:-
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess
import os
import glob
for f in glob.glob("*.cer"):
OUT_PUT = subprocess.check_output(['openssl','x509','-in','f','-noout','-text'])
print(type(OUT_PUT))
print(OUT_PUT.decode('utf-8'))
I get a feeling that something's wrong with the way I am placing the "f" variable in the function. The above code does not work.
Please advise.

This may or may not be your problem, but as it stands, you have f in quotes, so you're just passing through a string ("f") rather than the name of the file you wish to pass to openssl.

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I am trying to pipe the output of xz to a custom python script:
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However, I get an error when the script attempts to run this line:
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from __future__ import print_function
import pcap
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The error message already tell you what happened. You need a string to the pcap() function, not a file object. To fix this, try
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I see another issue: your code is not portable as it depends on this:
STDIN_ALIAS = '/proc/self/fd/0'
A pythonic way to read the stdin is the follows (see Reading binary data from stdin)
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Running Batch File from Python

I am trying to run a batch file through python; however, it is not recognizing the path. It stops reading the path after the space between 'Practice' and 'Folder'. How can I fix this? I've tried the r and using forward and backward slashes. Any help would be awesome. Thank you!
import os
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from os import system
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You probably need to use two types of quotation marks e.g.
import os
Practice = r"'C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat'"
os.system(Practice)
As it is, your string does not contain quotation marks - you need to include quotation marks within your string or else Windows will think that Folder\Practice.bat is an argument to the command rather than a continuation of the file path
Try this
import os
Practice = os.path.abspath(r"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat")
Edit:
Something like this worked for me
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I need you help with nmap script and printing the output to csv file.
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else:
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Edit: also remember to import sys
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Edited:
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I made this code and it is working but only in Linux.
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I'm writing a small script, that should be able to handle multiple files. So I've added that files can be passed comma seperated, and do a arg.split(',') and then handle each one.
Now I've wanted to add asterisk as input possibility like
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If I print the the argument to option -i right when I access it the first time I get
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But if I call my script with
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import sys
for arg in sys.argv:
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your shell expands the asterisk before python sees it.
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from glob import glob
glob('*')
code which would allow either the shell or Python to do asterisk expansion may look something like this:
import glob
file_list = []
for pattern in sys.argv[1:]:
file_list.extend(glob.glob(pattern))
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