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Newtron Malayalam
Asked: 2019-10-08 07:35:08 +0800 CST

How can I list replay of 'ls /usr/share/applications' in python

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How can I list all .desktop files in usr/share/applications using 'ls /usr/share/applications' command and make it a list variable in python3.7?

like

list1 = replayof('command')
print1 = list(list1)
print(print1)
python3

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's not trivial to understand your question, and it's probably the wrong stackexchange for this, because it's more python than Ubuntu.

    That being said, I believe the code you are looking for is

    import os
print(os.listdir('/usr/share/applications'))

    Unless your question is really about how to list all files that end in .desktop? Then it would be

    ls /usr/share/applications/*.desktop.

    For more on this, you may want to look into wildcards and globbing.

    I'll leave the list part as an exercise to the reader.

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