spawn-promise

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

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

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.