Pure Lua filebrowser [duplicate]

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12466102

  •  02-07-2021
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Question

I'm not sure how to implement a Pure Lua filebrowser... is there any code out there for a pure lua file browser and if not how can I implement it?

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Solution

Pure Lua has no module for filesystem access. You may do one of two things:

  1. Use some of modules available: http://lua-users.org/wiki/FileSystemOperations
  2. Use os.exec() to do ls-ing and then cd-ing.

For UI you can use one of multiple bindings, like the one for Qt (GUI) or for ncurses (TUI).

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