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On Sunday 28 January 2007 04:31:27 Thomas Harning Jr. wrote:
> > the t2-project (www.t2-project.org) has a bash to lua wrapper:
> >
> > http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/misc/luabash/
> >
> > that enables you to interface shellscript with lua, i.e call lua
> > functions from bash and vice versa and read / set bash variables from
> > within a lua code chunk. Luabash hasn't got many features yet, because it
> > is just a proof of concept implementation. But works fine otherwise...
> > See the test script in the example subdir.
>
> Wow, that's quite a neat binding.  Any plans on more work on this?
> I've written a few bash scripts over my time using Linux, but often
> preferred to use Lua for come complex items... with such a tool, I
> could use both for what they're good with...

Yes, it actually is used in production in T2 - the plan is to move more and 
more slow awk,shell, ... code in the T2 SDE to Lua and to improve the luabash 
binding as needed.

Any feedback is very much welcome.

PS: If you wonder what the T2 SDE actually is: http://www.t2-project.org/

Yours,

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  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
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