- environment setup
amalg - merge several lua scripts into standalone one net-url - url parser luash - invoke sh commands from lua
brew install --use-clang luarocks
luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/dev amalg net-url luash
- write your main lua script
require('sh')
local wd = tostring(pwd()) -- calls `pwd` and returns its output as a string
local files = tostring(ls('/tmp')) -- calls `ls /tmp`
for f in string.gmatch(files, "[^\n]+") do
print(f)
end
url = require "net.url"
query = url.parseQuery("first=abc&a[]=123&a[]=false&b[]=str&c[]=3.5&a[]=last")
print(query.a[2])
- generate dependency cache
lua -lamalg main.lua
- generate merged standalone lua script
amalg.lua -o out.lua -a -s main.lua -c