Re: io.popen() equivalent in nixio?

[Jorge Visca <xxopxe@...>]

Yeah, that was a silly example... replace it with

       local f = io.popen('aprogramthatwritestostdout') 

Jorge

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> With vanilla Lua I can do
>
>       local f = io.popen('cat /proc/cpuinfo') -- runs command
>       local l = f:read("*a") -- read output of command

Why io.popen+cat when you can read the file directly with io.open?