shelby

Issue commands to (and get responses from) a persistent shell. No dependencies.

Only tested with bash and csh/tcsh.

Installation

const Shelby = require('shelby');

Usage

let shell = new Shelby();

Constructor Options

• path (String): absolute path to shell binary (default: /bin/sh)

• timeout (Number): timeout (in ms) before shell exits with error (default: 0)

• verbose (Boolean): if true, log all shell output to console (default: false)

• logFile (String): absolute path to shell output log file (default: null)

• onError (Function): callback function for all command errors (default: null)

Commands

await shell.run('uname'); // 'Linux'
await shell.run('FOOBAR=BAZ'); // null, no output
await shell.run('echo $FOOBAR'); // 'BAZ'

await shell.exit();

Command Options

• timeout (Number): timeout (in ms) before command times out (default: 0)

• wait (Boolean): if false, run command and ignore output, resolving immediately (default: true)

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE.