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elevated-process

> A small wrapper on node's native child_process. It can start an elevated child process (run as aminstrator) using spawn, exec, fork, spawnSync or execSync from a non-elevated process; offering stdin, stdout and stderr on the elevated process

Installation

``bat
npm i elevated-process
`
or
`bat
yarn add elevated-process
`

Platforms

![windows] | ![macos] | ![linux] |
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Usage


This package uses the exact same API as [node.js native child_process API][child_process_docs], supporting spawn, exec, fork, spawnSync and execSync`

[gsudo][gsudo]

This package uses gsudo internally to elevate commands on windows

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[npm]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/elevated-process
[child_process_docs]: https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html
[gsudo]: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
[windows]: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46329768/141021000-3fe223be-f648-4aaf-8a2a-3a5d84f95d50.png
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[linux]: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46329768/141021003-d7714fa9-da81-409f-9ff7-e58735172c4d.png