Tauri Plugin Shellx

This is a mod of the original official Tauri plugin tauri-plugin-shell.

The purpose is to provide the option to remove restrictions on shell commands (every command has to be pre-defined in capability).

This plugin allows you to execute any shell commands freely without any restrictions.

Docs

JS/TS API Documentation: https://huakunshen.github.io/tauri-plugin-shellx/

Installation

• NPM Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tauri-plugin-shellx-api
• Rust Crate: https://crates.io/crates/tauri-plugin-shellx

npm install tauri-plugin-shellx-api
cargo add tauri-plugin-shellx

Usage

Install rust crate from https://crates.io/crates/tauri-plugin-shellx

Init plugin like this. The init() function takes a single unlocked argument.

let unlocked = true;
tauri::Builder::default()
    .plugin(tauri_plugin_shellx::init(unlocked))
...

• If set to true, capability and permission settings are ignored.
• If set to false, it will work like the original tauri-plugin-shell.

Example

An example app can be found at ./examples/tauri-app.

This example app is a simplified terminal emulator.

API

All API functions can be found in the API documentation.

Execute

const cmd = Command.create('echo', ['echo', 'Hello, World!'])
const out = await cmd.execute()
const stdout = out.stdout
// stdout === 'Hello, World!'

Spawn

Spawn a process for long-running tasks, and get stdout/stderr stream for real-time output.

const cmd = Command.create('ffmpeg', [
  '-i',
  '/Users/xxx/input.mp4',
  '/Users/xxx/output.mp4'
])

cmd.on('close', (data) => {
  console.log(
    `command finished with code ${data.code} and signal ${data.signal}`
  )
})
cmd.on('error', (error) => console.error(`command error: "${error}"`))
cmd.stdout.on('data', (line) => console.log(`command stdout: "${line}"`))
cmd.stderr.on('data', (line) => console.log(`command stderr: "${line}"`))

const child = await cmd.spawn()
console.log('pid:', child.pid)
await child.kill()

Extra APIs

Except for the original APIs, this plugin also provides some additional APIs:

Scripts Wrapper

These functions are simply wrappers for the execute function, which can be used to execute scripts.

You can also construct your own script runner wrapper

const powershellCmd = Command.create('powershell', ['-Command', script])
const bashCmd = Command.create('bash', ['-c', script])

• makeBashScript
• makePowershellScript
• makeAppleScript
• makePythonScript
• makeZshScript
• makeNodeScript
• executeBashScript
• executePowershellScript
• executeAppleScript
• executePythonScript
• executeZshScript
• executeNodeScript

Other Utilities

• likelyOnWindows
• hasCommand
• fixPathEnv
  • If the command you run cannot be found in the PATH environment variable, you can use this function to fix it.