Is there any way to get the contents of a directory in CC 's Lua? I've tried to do os.execute("dir /b") but it switches window to console and this is totally unacceptable. Thanks in advance

Maybe code up your own small program to return a directory listing, then io.popen.

I guess it will switch windows too. Oh and shipping custom executable with a mod, this is pure evil

Well then, looks like we have to go down to another level of hell and make a custom library.

Like DLL or something? Then I'll have to port it to MacOS and maybe Linux. I don't need directories THAT much

Well I know you can read and write files but I don't know about listing directories.

Truly shipping a custom executable is far worse than simply compiling an external library. You wouldn't even need to do much, simply make a function that runs dir args and returns the output to lua. It wouldn't switch windows.