Allow runnning executables directly without shell wrapper

[adrian-gierakowski]

Feature Request

I’d like to be able to specify a command as a list of: [executable, args…] and have it ran directly instead of via a shell.

Note that I’m willing to implement this.

Use Case:

Reducing dependencies needed to run the processes or double-wrapping in a shell, if my executable is already a shell script, which calls other executables.

Proposed Change:

Allow process.command to be an array, in which case it would be invoked directly

Who Benefits From The Change(s)?

People wanting to minimise the deps of their projects.

Alternative Approaches

Not sure.

[adrian-gierakowski]

seems like union types are a pain in go (I'm might be wrong since I have very little experience with this language) so making command a string | []string might not be the best choice

Adding optional args []string and a bool flag to disable shell for given process would probably make more sense, although would result in a more verbose config

[F1bonacc1]

Hi @adrian-gierakowski,

That's an interesting proposal. Will it work for you to replace the command with ${COMMAND_WITH_ARGS_FOR_SOME_PROC} environment variable place holder and provide the value for the env variable externally?

[adrian-gierakowski]

That's an interesting proposal. Will it work for you to replace the command with ${COMMAND_WITH_ARGS_FOR_SOME_PROC}

I think an array filed is required to simplify passing of args with spaces

I've included a draft implementation in #89

[F1bonacc1]

#89 Is merged in v0.75.1
Thank you @adrian-gierakowski !!!