#!/usr/bin/python2

import os

def RemoveArgs(Execline):
    NewExecline = []
    Specials=["\"%c\"", "%f","%F","%u","%U","%d","%D","%n","%N","%i","%c","%k","%v","%m","%M", "-caption", "/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "STARTED_FROM_MENU=yes"]
    for elem in Execline:
        elem = elem.replace("'","")
        elem = elem.replace("\"", "")
        if elem not in Specials:
            print elem
            NewExecline.append(elem)
    return NewExecline

# Actually execute the command
def Execute( cmd , commandCwd=None):
    if not commandCwd:
        cwd = os.path.expanduser( "~" );
    else:
        tmpCwd = os.path.expanduser( commandCwd );
        if (os.path.exists(tmpCwd)):
            cwd = tmpCwd

    if isinstance( cmd, str ) or isinstance( cmd, unicode):
        if (cmd.find("ubiquity") >= 0) or (cmd.find("/home/") >= 0) or (cmd.find("su-to-root") >= 0) or (cmd.find("xdg-su") >= 0) or (cmd.find("\"") >= 0):
            print "running manually..."
            try:
                os.chdir(cwd)
                os.system(cmd + " &")
                return True
            except Exception, detail:
                print detail
                return False
        cmd = cmd.split()
    cmd = RemoveArgs(cmd)

    try:
        os.chdir( cwd )
        string = ' '.join(cmd)
        string = string + " &"
        os.system(string)
        return True
    except Exception, detail:
        print detail
        return False
