* Moved exec, execl from ffluci.util to ffluci.sys

[project/luci.git] / src / ffluci / sys.lua

diff --git a/src/ffluci/sys.lua b/src/ffluci/sys.lua
index 532324d4bd05354154a518d92d6bb795a4ed91d7..367d41e8c1c25dcc27237b6feed51d8398b6ff8a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ffluci/sys.lua
+++ b/src/ffluci/sys.lua
@@ -27,6 +27,31 @@ limitations under the License.
 module("ffluci.sys", package.seeall)
 require("posix")
 
+-- Runs "command" and returns its output
+function exec(command)
+       local pp   = io.popen(command)
+       local data = pp:read("*a")
+       pp:close()
+       
+       return data
+end
+
+-- Runs "command" and returns its output as a array of lines
+function execl(command)
+       local pp   = io.popen(command)  
+       local line = ""
+       local data = {}
+       
+       while true do
+               line = pp:read()
+               if (line == nil) then break end
+               table.insert(data, line)
+       end 
+       pp:close()      
+       
+       return data
+end
+
 -- Returns the hostname
 function hostname()
        return io.lines("/proc/sys/kernel/hostname")()