Re: os.execute and return values

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

On 22/08/2008, at 7:44 AM, Wesley Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a pure lua way to redirect stdout back into Lua?  For example
> if I have the script:
>
> os.execute("pwd")
>
> Can I get the result of calling pwd back as a string in Lua?  If
> there's not a pure Lua way, are there any modules out there that
> redirect stdout?
>
> thanks,
> wes

Isn't that what popen does?

Cheers,
Geoff