Use shell commands directly from nodejs to make synchronous shell scripts.
npm install shellscriptcoffeescript
require('shellscript').globalize()
shell "ls ."
`And pipelines...
`coffeescript
require('shellscript').globalize()
shell "ls . | grep lib"
`Or if you us just plain Javascript
`javascript
require('shellscript').globalize()
shell("ls .");
`And of course, you can subshell and capture output
`coffeescript
require('shellscript').globalize()
stuff = $("ls .")
`Functions #
globalize() ##
Puts shellscript's functions on global, so you can call them without
an intermediate variable or namespace, useful to make this feel a lot
more like other languages with built in synchronous shelling.shell(command, exitOnError) ##
This just runs a command using your current $SHELL or /bin/sh if not
set. It pipes stdout and stderr into the parent, and blocks until
complete. This is the workhorse _make a shell script_ function.If
exitOnError is true, this will exit the process for any non 0 exit
code. Handy if you just want to exit and avoid error checking the return
object.$3
An object with properties:* pid: pid of the shelled process, now exited
* exitCode: exit code of the shelled process
* signalCode: signal on exit of the shelled process
* stdout: standard out, captured as a string
* stderr: standard error, captured as a string
$(command) ##
Much like shell` above, but instead of returning process information,