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On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Felipe Oliveira Gutierrez <lipe.82@gmail.com> wrote:

>  key=os.execute('xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/account_out/authenticator"
> /var/lib/boinc-client/lookup_account.xml')

Try io.popen:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-io.popen

For example:

  local aCommand = ( '%s -x %s < %s' ):format( reformail, Quote( 'message-id:' ), Quote( aMailPath ) )
  local aHandle = assert( io.popen( aCommand , 'r' ) )
  local aHeader = aHandle:read( '*l' )