run-pty

Run several commands concurrently. Show output for one command at a time. Kill all at once.

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run-pty

In bash you can use fg, bg, jobs and ctrl+z to run several commands at the same time in the same terminal. But it’s not very user friendly.

run-pty is a command line tool that lets you run several commands concurrently. Show output for one command at a time. Kill all at once. Nothing more, nothing less.

ctrl+z shows the dashboard, which gives you an overview of all your running commands and lets you switch between them.

ctrl+c exits current/all commands.

A use case is running several watchers. Maybe one or two for frontend (webpack, Parcel, Sass), and one for backend (nodemon, TypeScript, or even some watcher for another programming language).

{
  "scripts": {
    "watch:frontend": "webpack-dev-server",
    "watch:backend": "nodemon server/index.ts",
    "watch:all": "run-pty % npm run watch:frontend % npm run watch:backend"
  }
}

 1   🟢 pid 78147  npm run 'watch:frontend'
 2   🔴 exit 1     npm run 'watch:backend'

1-2    switch command
ctrl+c exit current/all
ctrl+z this dashboard

Installation

npm install --save-dev run-pty

npx run-pty --help

Credits

microsoft/node-pty does all the heavy lifting of running the commands.
apiel/run-screen was the inspiration for this tool.

License

MIT.

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Package last updated on 06 Jul 2020

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