Re: os.execute(echo -n "text") error

[Bernd Eggink <monoped@...>]

On 10.12.2017 11:09, Mason Mackaman wrote:
> Yep this fixes it! much better than my solution of writing it to a file and then executing it XD. How can I change it to execute through Bash by default?

Try
    os.execute'bash -c "echo -n text ... "'

or link /bin/sh to /bin/bash, which makes it permanent.

- Bernd

> > On 10Dec, 2017, at 04:39, Douglas J Davenport <puzzlery@lightlink.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On 2017-Dec-10, at 3:46 AM, Mason Mackaman <masondeanm@aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When I run this command in my Bash shell, the output I get is "-n text". Is this a bug or am I messing up something simple? I've never encountered this problem with os.execute before .
> >
> > Most likely the shell used to evaluate the parameters to the system() call does not support the -n option. Try:
> >
> >    /bin/sh -c ‘echo -n “text”'
> >
> > vs.
> >
> >    /bin/bash -c ‘echo -n “text”’
> >
> > I get “-n text” as output to the first command and “text” to the second.
> >
> > On most systems Lua will had the os.execute() parameter to /bin/sh for processing as that is the behavior of the system() call.
> >
> > -djd