From: thijs@thijsschreijer.nl
To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:23:42 +0000
Subject: commandline return codes
I'm having trouble getting the following to work (reduced example, fixed
bad line wrap).
"script1.lua"
print("Final result from os.execute():", os.execute("start.bat"))
"start.bat"
@ECHO OFF
echo Started batchfile
lua.exe script2.lua
echo Batch received %ERROR_LEVEL% as exitcode exit /B %ERROR_LEVEL%
"script2.lua"
local exitcode = "25"
print("========================")
print(" Script 2 calling")
print(" exiting with",exitcode)
print("========================")
os.exit(exitcode)
What I'm trying to do is catching a return code. Script1 calls the
batchfile, which calls script2. The batch file has to be in between to do
some OS magic.
This is the output;
C:\Users\Thijs\Dropbox\LUAPRO~1\busted\test\src>script1.lua
Started batchfile
========================
Script 2 calling
exiting with 25
========================
Batch received as exitcode <===
Final result from os.execute(): 0
C:\Users\Thijs\Dropbox\LUAPRO~1\busted\test\src>
So the exitcode to the os.exit() call in script2 does not get passed on
to the %ERROR_LEVEL% environment variable(marked with <===). I'm running
this on Windows7, using Lua for Windows.
Any ideas?
Thijs
