Lua programming - os.execute() is not working in Windows

Question

I\'m creating a function in pure-Lua to scan the files from a directory and put they on a another file.

The command I tryed was:

os.execute( \"dir /B C:         


        

Answer 1

Please try it with this syntax:

os.execute [["dir /B C:\Users\Fernando\workspace\Organizator2\s1 > C:\Users\Fernando\workspace\Organizator2\temp.txt"]]

Please note that the backslash (\) is not a special character in this case. (Lua uses cstrings internally, sometimes it leads to some weird and amazing results :P)