u_boot_pylib: Add a function to run a single command

Add a helper to avoid needing to use a list within a list for this
simple case.

Update existing users of runpipe() to use this where possible.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/u_boot_pylib/command.py b/tools/u_boot_pylib/command.py
index a98dcedd322..0e247355ef6 100644
--- a/tools/u_boot_pylib/command.py
+++ b/tools/u_boot_pylib/command.py
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ def run(*cmd, **kwargs):
     return run_pipe([cmd], **kwargs).stdout
 
 
+def run_one(*cmd, **kwargs):
+    """Run a single command
+
+    Note that you must add 'capture' to kwargs to obtain non-empty output
+
+    Args:
+        *cmd (list of str): Command to run
+        **kwargs (dict of args): Extra arguments to pass in
+
+    Returns:
+        CommandResult: output of command
+    """
+    return run_pipe([cmd], **kwargs)
+
+
 def run_list(cmd):
     """Run a command and return its output