import subprocess
import sys


def run_shell(shell):
    cmd = subprocess.Popen(shell, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=sys.stderr, close_fds=True,
                           stdout=sys.stdout, universal_newlines=True, shell=True, bufsize=1)
    cmd.communicate()
    return cmd.returncode


run_shell("tail -f C:/Users/root/IdeaProjects/python-base/index.html")