Executing a CLI command from Python

Jan Vrany jan@vrany.io
Wed Feb 15 22:25:37 GMT 2023


On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 16:50 -0500, Paul Koning via Gdb wrote:
> I looked through the Python GDB API documentation but didn't see this: is there a way for Python code to ask GDB to execute a command?
>
> For example, I want to look up information about a kernel module (addresses etc.) then issue an "add-symbol-file" command using parameters constructed from what was looked up.
>
I think this can be done with gdb.execute ():

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Basic-Python.html#Basic-Python

HTH, Jan

> 	paul
>




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