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-rw-r--r--libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
index a53db937c7..e27e1c4e8a 100644
--- a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
+++ b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
@@ -41,6 +41,20 @@ local tonumber, ipairs, pairs = tonumber, ipairs, pairs
--- LuCI Linux and POSIX system utilities.
module "luci.sys"
+--- Execute a given shell command and return the error code
+-- @class function
+-- @name call
+-- @param ... Command to call
+-- @return Error code of the command
+function call(...)
+ return os.execute(...) / 256
+end
+
+--- Execute a given shell command and capture its standard output
+-- @class function
+-- @name exec
+-- @param command Command to call
+-- @return String containg the return the output of the command
exec = luci.util.exec
--- Invoke the luci-flash executable to write an image to the flash memory.