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MicTech
MicTech

Reputation: 45023

node.js and command line (cmd.exe)

I'm looking for solution or NPM for calling Windows command line from node.js application.

What I want is call some batch files and run them on machine with node.js, of course with parameters and also read their output.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8523

Answers (1)

Deestan
Deestan

Reputation: 17136

You can use the standard module child_process.spawn() for this.

From the documentation example:

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
    ls    = spawn('ls', ['-lh', '/usr']);

ls.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
  console.log('stdout: ' + data);
});

ls.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
  console.log('stderr: ' + data);
});

ls.on('exit', function (code) {
  console.log('child process exited with code ' + code);
});

Replace 'ls' with 'c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe', and ['-lh', '/usr'] with ['/c', 'batfile.bat'] to run the batch file batfile.bat.

Upvotes: 7

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