Task

Run either the   ls   system command   (dir   on Windows),   or the   pause   system command.




Related task
  Get system command output


-- just executing the command
os.execute("ls")
 
-- to execute and capture the output, use io.popen
local f = io.popen("ls") -- store the output in a "file"
print( f:read("*a") )    -- print out the "file"'s content