🎲 node-async-exec

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A package that runs exec command asynchronously and also changes directory if needed to run commands.

Features

Asynchronously run a shell command.
Run a shell command/commands inside a specific directory.
Uses exec node method and process.chdir under the hood.
Can be used to build CLI and Node.js based tools.

Install

# install the package
npm install @kasper-green/node-async-exec

Usage

Run a shell command

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        await exec({ cmd: `touch example.md` })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

Change directory and run a command inside of it

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        await exec({
            path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
            cmd: `touch example.md`
        })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

Change directory and run a number of shell command inside that directory

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        const commands = [`git init`, `touch example.md`];
        await exec({
            path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
            cmd: commands
        })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

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Package detail

@kasper-green/node-async-exec

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