Get back the output of os.execute in Lua

Question

When I do an \"os.execute\" in Lua, a console quickly pops up, executes the command, then closes down. But is there some way of getting back the console output only using th

Answer 1

I think you want this http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/io.popen io.popen. But it's not always compiled in.