Meshell

Sacré bleu! Running shell commands from Node just can't get any simpler.

Why?

I always have to look up child_process whenever I need to run some shell command in Node. While this may be a good thing - I will learn something eventually - sometimes I just want to run the damn thing.

This library offers a really really straitforward way to run shell commands. I dare you to not get it.

Usage

npm install meshell

const Shell = require('meshell')

const sh = new Shell()

// output is both stdout and stderr
const output = await sh('ls -la')

// background process; returns pid instead of output; does not wait for the process to complete
const pid = await sh('sleep 10', {bg: true})

// collect output as it comes
await sh('git push heroku master', {outputStream: process.stdout})

// throws on exit code > 0
await sh('cat /does/not/exist')

// start in a particular directory (defaults to process.cwd())
const sh = new Shell({cwd: '/some/dir'})

// change it later
sh.cd('../test')

// where are we?
sh.cwd // => /some/test

Print all commands and their output to console:

DEBUG=meshell node myScript.js