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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