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NewGulpUserxx
NewGulpUserxx

Reputation: 225

Gulp-Shell is not executing any commands

I'm trying to execute something using gulp-shell. My gulfile.js contains the following content:

var gulp  = require('gulp'),
    shell = require('gulp-shell');

gulp.task('test', function() {
  shell(['echo test']);
});

Then I run it calling gulp test. This is the output I get:

Using gulpfile ~/gulpfile.js
Starting 'test'...
Finished 'test' after 2.62 ms

There's no output for my echo call.

I'm using an Ubuntu 14 VM that I connected to, using Putty.

Anyone got an idea what's wrong?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 9521

Answers (2)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 8048

For the record, if you want to pipe gulp-shell, per specified in the doc:

gulp.task('myGulpTask', [], function() {
  return gulp.src('gulpfile.js', {read: false})
    .pipe(shell('echo "This works too"'));
});

Upvotes: 4

tomaoq
tomaoq

Reputation: 3056

That's because it's not the good way to use gulp-shell.

Try this, as seen in the gulp-shell README.

var gulp  = require('gulp'),
    shell = require('gulp-shell');

gulp.task('test', shell.task([
    'echo test'
]));

Upvotes: 18

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