I want to execute a python script from a bash script, and I want to store the output of the python script in a variable.
In my python script, I print some stuff to screen and at the end I return a string with:
sys.exit(myString)
In my bash script, I did the following:
outputString=`python myPythonScript arg1 arg2 arg3 `
But then when I check the value of outputString with echo $outputString I get everything that the Python script had printed to screen, but not the return value myString!
How should I do this?
EDIT: I need the string because that tells me where a file created by the Python script is located. I want to do something like:
fileLocation=`python myPythonScript1 arg1 arg2 arg1`
python myPythonScript2 $fileLocation