Re: Shell commands in Lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Sandeep Ghai <sandeep.ghai92@gmail.com> wrote:
> I searched internet but didnt find anything relevant.
> Any help would be appreciated.

No _direct_ way to do this, but you can always use os.execute for
shell commands (works like C's system)

local tmpfile = os.tmpname()
os.execute("ls -1 > "..tmpfile)
... can now open tmpfile

for this it's easier to use io.popen

local f = io.popen("ls - 1")
for line in f:lines() do
  ...
end
f:close()

steve d.