Read directory contents to var

[onezero1010101]

Is it possible to read a directory contents to a variable to be able
to write it to a file. Wanting to be able to scan my wallpaper folder,
and randomly pick a file to set as wallpaper. I don't think it should
be a problem, once I get the file created of filenames. If someone
has better way to accomplish this, I am open to suggestions as well.
Thanks

[BossMan]

I don't think you can list directories at the moment.

You can call an ASE script tough. It could run "ls" command and write
the output (list of files) to a file. The you could read that file in
Tasker and do the rest.

BR,
A.

[onezero1010101]

What exactly is an ASE script? I have ConnectBot (Telnet/SSH Terminal
Client) and can open a local shell prompt. I could probably generate
a list manually, but really don't want to have to do that each time I
modify the directory structure.

[BossMan]

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
Once you create your script, you can run it from Tasker.

BR,
A.

[onezero1010101]

Ok, I have a script to ls the contents to a file. Now I need to
determine how many items are in the file, how do I count the lines? I
have attempted to loop tasker, to read a line, then increase a
linecount var, goto 1, and repeat till eof. When EOF, it ends loop
and supposed to save the variable with total lines, so I can set the
min / max values for var random, to pick a random line to read with
read file. Problem is, the loop is SLOW. I have alot of files in the
folder, so its taking forever to count the lines. Is there anything
to count lines in a file?

Or, is it possible using ASE script, to count the items in folder, or
count lines in file?

Tried using ls | wc -l (but wc does not have permission to run)

Thanks

[BossMan]

If you use bash/shell, wc -l is the easiest option. If you have
busybox installed, try running busybox wc -l.

If this doesn't work, you should be able to walk-around using perl/
python script.

BR,
A.

[onezero1010101]

Well not being rooted, wc command does not work using shell. Do you
have any idea how I would go about that with python? I loaded that,
have not loaded perl yet, but do not have much experience with either
one.

[BossMan]

First links from google:
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-546.html
http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/45188-count-files-directory

BR,
A.