* Read output of external command
@ 2013-04-14 10:06 Marco Patzer
2013-04-14 11:27 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Marco Patzer @ 2013-04-14 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I need to read the standard output of an external command. This is
what I came up with:
\starttext
\startluacode
f = io.popen "ls"
context(f:read "*a")
\stopluacode
\stoptext
It works with luajittex, plain lua5.1 and lua5.2, but it fails with
a current luatex:
! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:3: attempt to index global 'f' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "\directlua "]:3: in main chunk.
Why does this fail in luatex but works in lua5.2 ? What is the
correct way to obtain the output of a command?
Marco
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* Re: Read output of external command
2013-04-14 10:06 Read output of external command Marco Patzer
@ 2013-04-14 11:27 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2013-04-14 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 4/14/2013 12:06 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to read the standard output of an external command. This is
> what I came up with:
>
> \starttext
> \startluacode
> f = io.popen "ls"
> context(f:read "*a")
> \stopluacode
> \stoptext
context(os.resultof("ls"))
> It works with luajittex, plain lua5.1 and lua5.2, but it fails with
> a current luatex:
>
> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:3: attempt to index global 'f' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
> [string "\directlua "]:3: in main chunk.
>
> Why does this fail in luatex but works in lua5.2 ? What is the
> correct way to obtain the output of a command?
>
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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