spawn-promise

Spawns a process and makes it simple to pipe data in and get data out.

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spawn-promise
Spawns a process and makes it simple to pipe data in and get data out.
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Installation

npm install spawn-promise

Usage

var spawn = require(spawn-promise);

spawn('grep', ['H'], 'Hello').then(function (buffer) {
  console.log(buffer.toString()); // Hello
});

API


spawn ( command , args , input )

Spawns a child process with the given command, writes the input value to stdin, and returns a Promise that is fulfilled with the concatenated stdout buffer.
Arguments
  • command - The command to run.
  • args - An array of arguments to run the command with.
  • input - The value to write to stdin.