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Python 3 PyAutoGUI Tutorial to Run Terminal & Shell Commands From GUI Desktop App & Print the Result
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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execute the terminal and shell commands
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inside a python uh graphical user
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interface kind of an application so
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graphical user kind of application is
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that application when where you can
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actually see some widgets on the screen
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let me show you a very simple example so
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we have this application right here
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which I built using pi auto this is a
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free open-source library so the
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interface will look something like this
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it will ask you to enter any sort of
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command here inside the input field so
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here through the keyboard you can
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actually write the name of the command
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and then there are two buttons out there
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either you can click okay or cancel so
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this is a very easy kind of an
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interface through which you can execute
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commands so let's suppose I you can
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execute any sort of command here uh so
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let's suppose I want to print out the
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version of python so simply I type here
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python d- version so if as I click okay
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here it will actually print out the
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result of this command in the
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uh guey as well so if I just click okay
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here you will see it will print out the
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version of python which is python
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310.5 so essentially what it is doing it
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is executing this uh command here in the
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background and whatever is the result
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right here that you see right here it is
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printing directly in the graphical user
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interface so I will show you this
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library here which lets you do this so
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first of all you just need to install
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this uh pi auto GUI
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library so this is essentially this
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package here so this is just used for
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creating the interface of the
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application so pip install pi autogy you
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can use any sort of framework it's not
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restricted that you only use this
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framework but this lets it's uh this
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library makes it very much easy to
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create the interface
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so now the thing is that just create a
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simple app py file and then import the
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necessary packages so import operating
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system and then we need to import pi
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autogy package after that we simply
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construct the input field where we will
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allow the user to directly type the
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command so it contains this function
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here which is prompt which you can
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execute and here you can simply say
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enter shell
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command and whatever the user writes it
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so we simply execute this command by
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using this function p open of operating
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system and passing it the
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value and then we display this whatever
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is the output of the command we display
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this using this
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stream object and we read this and then
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we display this so pi autogy and it
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contains this alert function and we
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display this so you can see only 10
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lines of code is required for
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this so we simply first of all require
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the necessary packages then we construct
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the input field by using the prompt
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function and then we execute this
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command by the operating system pop
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method and then we read the output here
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by using stream read and lastly we
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display this on the screen by using the
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alert method so if I just execute this
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now you will see that
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uh it will have this input
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field so it will it constructed this
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interface by using very small amount of
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code here so we have this input field we
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have these two buttons so if I let's
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suppose just write a command here which
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again let's suppose this time I want to
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print out the version of
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ffmppg so click on okay so it will print
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out the result of this command in this
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alert window so this is a very simple
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application you can execute commands
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terminal commands inside a GUI kind of
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interface and print the result as well
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so thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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