node-cmd

Node.js commandline/terminal interface.

Simple commandline, terminal, or shell interface to allow you to run cli or bash style commands as if you were in the terminal.

Run commands asynchronously, and if needed can get the output as a string.

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This work is licenced via the MIT Licence.

Methods

|method | arguments | functionality | returns |
|-------|-----------|---------------|---------|
|run | command, callback | runs a command asynchronously| args for callback err,data,stderr |
|runSync| command | runs a command synchronously | obj {err,data,stderr} |

Examples

``javascript

//*nix

var cmd=require('node-cmd');

//*nix supports multiline commands

cmd.runSync('touch ./example/example.created.file');

cmd.run(
cd ./example
ls,
function(err, data, stderr){
console.log('examples dir now contains the example file along with : ',data)
}
);

`

`javascript

//Windows

var cmd=require('node-cmd');

//Windows multiline commands are not guaranteed to work try condensing to a single line.

const syncDir=cmd.runSync('cd ./example & dir');

console.log(

Sync Err ${syncDir.err}

Sync stderr: ${syncDir.stderr}

Sync Data ${syncDir.data}

);

cmd.run(dir,
function(err, data, stderr){
console.log('the node-cmd dir contains : ',data)
}
);

`

`javascript

//clone this repo!

var cmd=require('node-cmd');

const syncClone=cmd.runSync('git clone https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-cmd.git');

console.log(syncClone);

`

$3

`javascript

var cmd=require('node-cmd');

var process=cmd.run('node');
console.log(process.pid);

`

$3

`javascript
const cmd=require('node-cmd');

const processRef=cmd.run('python -i');
let data_line = '';

//listen to the python terminal output
processRef.stdout.on(
'data',
function(data) {
data_line += data;
if (data_line[data_line.length-1] == '\n') {
console.log(data_line);
}
}
);

const pythonTerminalInput=primes = [2, 3, 5, 7]
for prime in primes:
print(prime)

;

//show what we are doing
console.log(>>>${pythonTerminalInput});

//send it to the open python terminal
processRef.stdin.write(pythonTerminalInput);

`

Output :

`python

>>>primes = [2, 3, 5, 7]
for prime in primes:
print(prime)


2
3
5
7


``