diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c993a8c..077bd7e 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.1 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "appnope"
@@ -51,6 +51,23 @@ files = [
     {file = "colorama-0.4.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:08695f5cb7ed6e0531a20572697297273c47b8cae5a63ffc6d6ed5c201be6e44"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "colorlog"
+version = "6.8.2"
+description = "Add colours to the output of Python's logging module."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "colorlog-6.8.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4dcbb62368e2800cb3c5abd348da7e53f6c362dda502ec27c560b2e58a66bd33"},
+    {file = "colorlog-6.8.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3e3e079a41feb5a1b64f978b5ea4f46040a94f11f0e8bbb8261e3dbbeca64d44"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+development = ["black", "flake8", "mypy", "pytest", "types-colorama"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "coverage"
 version = "7.4.4"
@@ -416,6 +433,36 @@ pytest = ">=4.6"
 [package.extras]
 testing = ["fields", "hunter", "process-tests", "pytest-xdist", "virtualenv"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest-mock"
+version = "3.14.0"
+description = "Thin-wrapper around the mock package for easier use with pytest"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "pytest-mock-3.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2719255a1efeceadbc056d6bf3df3d1c5015530fb40cf347c0f9afac88410bd0"},
+    {file = "pytest_mock-3.14.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0b72c38033392a5f4621342fe11e9219ac11ec9d375f8e2a0c164539e0d70f6f"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pytest = ">=6.2.5"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["pre-commit", "pytest-asyncio", "tox"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "python-simple-logger"
+version = "1.0.19"
+description = "A simple logger for python"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "<4.0,>=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "python_simple_logger-1.0.19.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:09e012b7eae28d22cd00725576aac0ec06f283838a57888d4d23b8935fc8092e"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorlog = ">=6.7.0,<7.0.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "six"
 version = "1.16.0"
@@ -497,4 +544,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "e5320c14eaaa09de898201c3c6abdc0b9a18e901ba754b864ba798ffead0856a"
+content-hash = "364f55a18d6c17d6ae0611aa8eaeb3be755e74bc4c5b7db3c79302cfe089d974"
diff --git a/pyhelper_utils/shell.py b/pyhelper_utils/shell.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53b9afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyhelper_utils/shell.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import subprocess
+
+from simple_logger.logger import get_logger
+
+LOGGER = get_logger(name=__name__)
+
+TIMEOUT_30MIN = 30 * 60
+
+
+def run_command(
+    command: list,
+    verify_stderr: bool = True,
+    shell: bool = False,
+    timeout: int = None,
+    capture_output: bool = True,
+    check: bool = True,
+    hide_log_command: bool = False,
+    **kwargs,
+) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Run command locally.
+
+    Args:
+        command (list): Command to run
+        verify_stderr (bool, default True): Check command stderr
+        shell (bool, default False): run subprocess with shell toggle
+        timeout (int, optional): Command wait timeout
+        capture_output (bool, default False): Capture command output
+        check (bool, default True):  If check is True and the exit code was non-zero, it raises a
+            CalledProcessError
+        hide_log_command (bool, default False): If hide_log_command is True and check will be set to False,
+            CalledProcessError will not get raise and command will not be printed.
+
+    Returns:
+        tuple: True, out if command succeeded, False, err otherwise.
+
+    Raises:
+        CalledProcessError: when check is True and command execution fails
+    """
+    command_for_log = ["Hide", "By", "User"] if hide_log_command else command
+
+    LOGGER.info(f"Running {' '.join(command_for_log)} command")
+
+    # when hide_log_command is set to True, check should be set to False to avoid logging sensitive data in
+    # the exception
+    sub_process = subprocess.run(
+        command,
+        capture_output=capture_output,
+        check=check if not hide_log_command else False,
+        shell=shell,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=timeout,
+        **kwargs,
+    )
+    out_decoded = sub_process.stdout
+    err_decoded = sub_process.stderr
+
+    error_msg = (
+        f"Failed to run {command_for_log}. rc: {sub_process.returncode}, out: {out_decoded}, error: {err_decoded}"
+    )
+
+    if sub_process.returncode != 0:
+        LOGGER.error(error_msg)
+        return False, out_decoded, err_decoded
+
+    # From this point and onwards we are guaranteed that sub_process.returncode == 0
+    if err_decoded and verify_stderr:
+        LOGGER.error(error_msg)
+        return False, out_decoded, err_decoded
+
+    return True, out_decoded, err_decoded
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d09c867..bea847e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,16 +39,19 @@ classifiers = [
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.8"
+python-simple-logger = "^1.0.19"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.tests.dependencies]
 pytest = "^8.1.1"
 pytest-cov = "^5.0.0"
+pytest-mock = "^3.14.0"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 ipdb = "^0.13.13"
 ipython = "*"
 
+
 [tool.poetry-dynamic-versioning]
 enable = true
 pattern = "((?P<epoch>\\d+)!)?(?P<base>\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)"
diff --git a/tests/test_shell.py b/tests/test_shell.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c60ddc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_shell.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import shlex
+from subprocess import CalledProcessError
+import pytest
+import subprocess
+from pyhelper_utils.shell import run_command
+
+ERROR_MESSAGE = "Expected value {expected}, actual value {actual}"
+SUCCESSFUL_MESSAGE = "worked"
+FAILURE_MESSAGE = "No such file"
+
+
+def test_run_command_return_true():
+    rc, out, error = run_command(command=shlex.split(f"echo '{SUCCESSFUL_MESSAGE}'"), check=False)
+    assert rc, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected=True, actual=rc)
+    assert not error, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected="", actual="error")
+    assert SUCCESSFUL_MESSAGE in out, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected=SUCCESSFUL_MESSAGE, actual=out)
+
+
+def test_run_command_return_false():
+    rc, _, _ = run_command(command=shlex.split("false"), check=False)
+    assert not rc, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected=False, actual=rc)
+
+
+def test_run_command_no_verify_raises_exception():
+    with pytest.raises(CalledProcessError):
+        run_command(command=shlex.split("false"), check=True, verify_stderr=False)
+
+
+def test_run_command_error(mocker):
+    mocker.patch(
+        "pyhelper_utils.shell.subprocess.run",
+        return_value=subprocess.CompletedProcess(args=None, stderr=FAILURE_MESSAGE, returncode=0, stdout=""),
+    )
+    rc, out, error = run_command(command=shlex.split("true"), capture_output=False, check=False, shell=True)
+    assert not rc, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected=False, actual=rc)
+    assert FAILURE_MESSAGE in error, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected=FAILURE_MESSAGE, actual="error")
+    assert not out, ERROR_MESSAGE.format(expected="", actual=out)