Re: Returning result from execute function.

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> execute("dir > temp_file.txt")

and if you have pipes, you can use something like this:

function shell(c)
  local input = _INPUT
  local o, h
  h = readfrom("| " .. c)
  o = read("*a")
  closefile(h)
  _INPUT = input
  return o
end

and then just

shell("dir")

will do what you want.