[luatex] Bug in io.popen

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 17:32:16 CEST 2016


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Deepak Jois <deepak.jois at gmail.com> wrote:
as a minimal working example might take a bit of effort.
>
> However, why does this not work?
>
> $ cat popen.lua
> texconfig.kpse_init = false
> texconfig.shell_escape = 't'
> io.popen("ls"):read("*l")
>
> $ ~/.ufy/luatex --lua=popen.lua  "\bye"
> popen.lua:3: attempt to index a nil value
>
It should be explained at
3.1.3 Other command
of the manual

--
luigi


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