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For questions related to portable implementation of Unix shell commands for Node.js.

ShellJS is a portable (Windows/Linux/OS X) implementation of Unix on top of the

Usage

Install it using 

$ npm install -g shelljs

And run scripts

$ shjs your_script_file

See also

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how to run node shelljs in sync mode and get stdout and stderr

Within a nodejs script I have the following code which makes the call synchronously and returns the stdout from the shell script I am calling: var sh = require('shelljs'); ... some code var output = sh.exec('./someshellscript.sh',…
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webpack + shelljs will throw "Error: Cannot find module '/exec-child.js'"

I want to use shelljs to write some scripts in javascript, since I want to use some new JavaScript features, I use Babel + webpack to bundle my code to a single bundle js. The code is quite simple: entry.js import shell from…
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accessing bull-queue to view job stats from nodejs

I need to access bull-queue to view job stats and show on the page. I'm using bull-repl to access the queue from CLI, as follows: > bull-repl BULL-REPL> connect marathon reddis://localhost:6379 Connected to reddis://localhost:6379, queue:…
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Set environment variable with shelljs

I'm trying to set an env variable in node with shelljs so here's the psudo code: const shell = require('shelljs'); shell.exec('export MM=2'); shell.exec('echo $MM'); but this does not printout the value of MM Any suggestions on how to set an env…
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How to suppress errors in shelljs?

When I run the following code in node: var shell = require('shelljs'); var files = shell.ls('-R', './**/foobar'); console.log('Files found:\n' + files.join('\n')); I see this in the output: ls: no such file or directory: ./**/foobar How can I…
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shelljs - getting process ID of process created by shelljs.exec() process

So, I'm dealing with an issue on Windows where I can't kill a process spawned using shell.exec(...). I'm creating the process like this: const shell = require('shelljs'); // ... let childProcess = shell.exec('someBinary --whatever', { async: true…
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What is the difference between Rimraf and rm -rf through ShellJS

rimraf，The UNIX command rm -rf for node，I think I can do the same thing with rm -rf through shelljs.so what is the diff
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running shell command through ReactJs code

I have a file stored in local computer and a printer connected too. So generally if I want to give a print of the file to the connected printer, I would run following command in command prompt: cd copy…
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Using NPM ShellJS to execute a Git command in Node returns an empty string inside `stdout`

I'm using NPM ShellJS to execute the following Git command inside a Node script: git for-each-ref --sort=v:refname --format "tag: %(refname:strip=2) message: %(subject) date: %(authordate:iso)" refs/tags If I run this command inside a normal command…
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Why do I get a NullReferenceException when using shelljs to clone a git repo?

I am attempting to write a fairly simple nodejs program that needs to clone a git repo. var shell = require('shelljs'); shell.exec('git clone http://mybitbuck.et/scm/myproject/myrepo.git'); Throws an error as follows, and then seems to hang without…
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Execute shell commands in typescript

Is there a way to execute commands in Typescript, just like we do in Javascript with Shelljs Library?
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Execute ssh shell script from npm command

I'm trying to write an npm script that will execute an ssh shell command. Currently it's working by executing an osascript command to open a Terminal window and run the command. I'd like to change this to execute the command in the current…
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shelljs: shx can't work correctly

I am working in windows platform, and want to use some Unix shell command in daily work.So I install the shelljs package via node as following: npm install -g shelljs the installation runs well. But I can't use the shx as interface to run Unix…
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Can't resolve module 'child_process'

I have an angular2 webpack project that is running in electron. I'm trying to use shelljs but webpack fails to build with the error: [0] ERROR in ./~/shelljs/src/exec.js [0] Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'child_process' in…
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ReferenceError: process is not defined when requiring Shelljs in ReactJS

I am trying to require shelljs in my core React component. import React, { Component } from 'react'; import {render} from 'react-dom'; import Header from './components/Header'; const shell = require('shelljs'); class App extends Component { …
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