Cordova shell is a javascript wrapper around the Apache Cordova Plugin File to give you an easy access to the device filesystem.

For documentation see the definition file
``
shell.consoleLog(true);

shell.ls('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/');

shell.mkdir('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/');

shell.writeText('hello world', 'cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/hello.txt');

shell.copy('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/hello.txt', cordova.file.dataDirectory);

shell.ls(cordova.file.dataDirectory);

shell.download('https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/iso_8859-1.txt', 'cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/iso.txt', progressCallback);

shell.readText('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/iso.txt')

shell.remove('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/iso.txt');

shell.remove('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/data/');

shell.fileTree('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/'); //return relative paths

shell.fileTree('cdvfile://localhost/persistent/', false); //return absolute paths
`

Install


- Add Apache Cordova Plugin File to your cordova app :
`bash
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file
`
- Download cordova-shell.js and copy it to your cordova _www_ directory

- reference the script in _www/index.html_
`html


`

Import module


`
npm install cordova-shell
`

`js
import {shell} from 'cordova-shell';

shell.ls("cdvfile://localhost/persistent").then(entries => {
console.log(entries);
});
``