Re: LUA os.execute help

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <20100815042616.A29832@xnet.com> you wrote:


> Instead, you want to concatenate the contents of the zz variable with
> the rest of the string going into os.execute().
>
> So you want something like this instead:
>
>   os.execute("echo '" .. zz .. "' >>\etc\putty\putty1.log")

I usually avoid concatenations with

do
 local cmd = "echo '%s' >>\etc\putty\putty1.log"
 os.execute (cmd:format(zz))
end

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