On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:15:04PM +0300, Jayson Willson wrote:
> Hello! I need the following: execute some command and go to the next command
> of the function only when the first command is finished.
> What I have now:
>
> awful.key({}, "XF86AudioMute",
> function ()
> awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master toggle")
> update_volume(volume_widget)
> end)
>
> Thus "update_volume" takes place earlier, than "amixer set Master toggle"
> finishes it's execution, and I do not get required result.
>
> One guy suggested using popen:
> function ()
> local f = io.popen("amixer set Master toggle")
> f:close()
> update_volume(volume_widget)
> end)
> It works fine, but I wonder if there is a way to implement it without pipes.
> Could you please help me? Thank you.
os.execute is what you want in this case.
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