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Capturing output from operating system commands
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Tue 07 Dec 2004 09:09 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I had this code in another thread, but it was a bit hard to find, so I'll put it here in the Lua section.
Here is an example of executing an operating system command, and capturing the output.
-- get a temporary file name
n = os.tmpname ()
-- execute a command
os.execute ("dir > " .. n)
-- display output
for line in io.lines (n) do
print (line)
end
-- remove temporary file
os.remove (n)
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- Nick Gammon
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| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:38 PM (UTC) |
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| | I found an ActiveX control to do that, tell me if anyone wants it (can't remember the name at the moment). Does the program have to stop for this lua code to work, or can it do it as it's running? |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:43 PM (UTC) |
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| Still trying to get the chess game to work, eh?
In this case, it runs the command and exits. Conceivably you might do it with piping, but that isn't enabled right now. Plus, I doubt it a bit. |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:50 PM (UTC) |
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| | I tried piping, it doesn't work. The chess system runs great with that ActiveX control (if only Crafty had coordinate notation, aaargh). |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:55 PM (UTC) |
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| Here's a suggestion - write your own chess game in Lua. ;)
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Thu 09 Dec 2004 12:06 AM (UTC) |
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| | I'm not trying to make a game, I'm trying to get the engine (the AI) to work, which I did with that control. I still haven't learned Lua :P |
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