🎲 node-async-exec

A package that runs exec command asynchronously and also changes directory if needed to run commands.

Features

• Asynchronously run a shell command.
• Run a shell command/commands inside a specific directory.
• Uses exec node method and process.chdir under the hood.
• Can be used to build CLI and Node.js based tools.

Install

# install the package
npm install node-async-exec

Usage

• Run a shell command

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        await exec({ cmd: `touch example.md` })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

• Change directory and run a command inside of it

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        await exec({
            path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
            cmd: `touch example.md`
        })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

• Change directory and run a number of shell command inside that directory

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
    try {
        const commands = [`git init`, `touch example.md`];
        await exec({
            path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
            cmd: commands
        })
    } catch (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
})()

🔑 License & Conduct

• MIT © Saad Irfan
• Code of Conduct

Changes Across Different Versions of node-async-exec

v1.2.0

• Fixed execution of array of commands

• Improved test cases

  v1.1.0

• Run multiple shell commands inside a particular directory

  v1.0.1

• Asynchronously run a shell command

• Run a shell command inside a specific directory