Re: Files and directories manipulation

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

Does lfs help?

http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/index.html

cheers,
Geoff

On 31/07/2007, at 8:34 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> [Warning: beginner]
>
> I'm trying to do some very simple file and directories manipulation in
> Lua. The first thing I want to do is to get all the files in a given
> directory (I'll then examine them to find the one I'm interested in).
>
> I cannot find a function to list all files in a directory.
>
> Worse, I cannot find a comprehensive package with files and
> directories handling. The "os" library only contains "remove" and
> "rename" (why only these two?).
>
> Is the only solution os.execute(string.format("ls %s", directory))
> with parsing of the result?
>
> Lua 5.0 on a Debian/Linux machine