Calling a batch file from within LUA

[brian@...]

That would work if i the folder names were always going to be c:\folder1 and c:\folder2!

The folder names will be decided at run time by the lua script so they will have to be held in two variables.
E.g. Argument1 & Argumnet2

So for example Argument1 = c:\folder1
               Argument2 = c:\folder2

So calling execute[[ batch Argument1 Argumnet2 ]]
would pass the actual string='Argument1' to the batch file rather that the path held by the varialbe Argument1

So you execute(batch Argument1 Argument2)
work?

Thanks for your time
Brian

>brian@arandasys.com wrote:
>> execute("batch c:\folder1 c:\folder2")
>> 
>> batch being the name of the batch file to execute
>and c:\folder1 & c:\folder2 being the two arguments
>passed.
>> 
>> Is this the correct/best way to do this?
>
>The backslashs within the double quotes are going
>to get you.
>It's better to use [[ ... ]] to quote string
>containing DOS path names.
>
>Lua 4:  execute[[ batch c:\folder1 c:\folder2 ]]
>Lua 5:  os.execute[[ batch c:\folder1 c:\folder2 ]]
>
>
>- Peter Shook