Execute a python file in a bash file and read two text file

Question

I have a python file which works fine. It takes a file and does something on it. So I run it like this:

./MyPy.py File.txt

Then with bash script I grep some part of it.

./MyPy.py File.txt | grep -vE "^color"

So what I want to do is creating a bash file which asks the user for the path of the File and does ./MyPy.py File.txt | grep -vE "^color" in it and gives the result to out put.

Can you please help me with this ?

Answer 1

This should work:

#!/bin/bash
read -e -p "Enter the path of the file: " file
./MyPy.py "$file" | grep -vE "^color"

Additional improvement:

If you want to interpret ~ as /home/user ie use ~/Downloads to point to /home/user/Downloads , then:

#!/bin/bash
read -e -p "Enter the path of the file: " file
file=${file/#\~/$HOME}
./MyPy.py "$file" | grep -vE "^color"