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RE: possible to use io.popen?

mikshaw Wrote:
Lua has this handy alternative to os.execute which grabs the output of a shell command:

mycmd = io.popen("some_command")
myoutput = mycmd:read("*a")
mycmd:close()


Hi mikshaw !

I did some research and it turns out that this is disabled when you build Lua in ANSI mode (for compatibility), however popen works on the three platforms I am interested in so I have tweaked the build and it'll be available along with a couple of other things when I update 0.4 (this week?).

Cheers
JohnM

04-26-2007 07:23 PM
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possible to use io.popen? - mikshaw - 04-26-2007, 03:41 PM
RE: possible to use io.popen? - JohnMurga - 04-26-2007 07:23 PM
RE: possible to use io.popen? - mikshaw - 04-27-2007, 02:48 AM

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