Running shell command and capturing the output

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00:00 Question
00:35 Accepted answer (Score 1764)
07:59 Answer 2 (Score 202)
08:32 Answer 3 (Score 136)
08:56 Answer 4 (Score 125)
09:40 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4760...

Accepted answer links:
[subprocess.check_output]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[run]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[subprocess]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[CompletedProcess]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[shlex.split]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex....
[host of different arguments]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[Aaron Hall's answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21867841/577...
[Vartec]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4760274/5770...
[security concerns]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subpro...
[this]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6341...

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