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Stephan Ahlf
Stephan Ahlf

Reputation: 3497

How to open a command line window in Node.js?

How to open a new command line window and execute a bash command which runs in a separate independent process?

I tried 

var child_process = require('child_process');
child_process.execSync("cmd.exe /K node my-new-script.js parm1 parm2);

but it opens no new window and I need an independent process (if possible). The background is I am experimenting with electron and wrote some node command line scripts. Unfortunately within electron environment spawning processes results often in weird behavior and console log output is more than ugly.

By the way I would need something equivalent to OS X and Linux.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 16728

Answers (1)

brandonscript
brandonscript

Reputation: 72865

For Windows, you'll need to use the start command:

start cmd.exe /K node my-new-script.js parm1 parm2

For OS X, you can use:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down'

For other *nix distros, you'll need to look those up as each one is slightly different.

Upvotes: 18

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