polyshell

Combines Microsoft Windows and POSIX, shell scripts into a single cross platform script

Installation

As a module

npm install polyshell --save

As a program

npm install polyshell -g

Usage

As a module

var fs = require('fs');
var polyshell = require('polyshell');

var polyshellStream = polyshell(fs.createFileStream('script.bat'), fs.createFileStream('script.sh'));
polyshellStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('script.cmd'));

As a program

polyshell script.bat script.sh > script.cmd

Example

hello.bat

@echo off
echo Hello

hello.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo Hello

polyshell hello.bat hello.sh > hello.cmd

On Windows

c:\project>hello.cmd
Hello

c:\project>

On Linux/Unix/OSX etc

user$ chmod +x hello.cmd
user$ ./hello.cmd
Hello
user$ 

Limitations

To run on as many systems as possible, the Windows script should be a Batch file, and the POSIX script should be a Bourne shell file.

When executing on POSIX systems, the script will run uisng the default shell. This is almost always the Bourne shell, however there is no guarantee that the default has not been changed!