spawnly

spawnly

Wrapper around child_process.spawn to enable pass the command as a string directly to spawn

Install

npm i --save spawnly

Usage

var spawnly = require('spawnly');

var cp = spawnly('echo "hello" && sleep 1s &&  echo "world"'); // this will happily accept commands that should run in sequence

Other examples:

describe( 'spawnly', function () {
  it( 'should execute a command in the system shell', function ( done ) {
    var spawnly = require( '../' );
    var cp = spawnly( 'echo "hello" && echo "world"' );

    cp.stdout.on( 'data', function ( data ) {
      expect( String( data ) ).to.equal( 'hello\nworld\n' );
      done();
    } );
  } );

  it( 'should execute a command in the system shell', function ( done ) {
    var spawnly = require( '../' );
    var cp = spawnly( 'echo "hello" && sleep 1s && echo "world"' );
    var data = '';
    cp.stdout.on( 'data', function ( received ) {
      data += received;
    } );

    cp.on( 'exit', function () {
      expect( data ).to.equal( 'hello\nworld\n' );
      done();
    } );
  } );
} );

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MIT

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