Feature Request: Support for multiline commands (sync)

[a-y-u-s-h]

Feature Suggestion

Hey. I'm exporting execa.commandSync function and then importing it as shell, so that I can use it as: shell("mkdir something").

It would be awesome to have a function that could work with multiline (and multi-commands) (like a bash script) at once with one command. Not sure if suggested before.

  shell(`
    mkdir ${foo}
    cd ${foo}
    touch ${foo}.txt
  `)

[ehmicky]

I think it would make more sense to use an array of strings:

execa.command([
  `mkdir ${foo}`,
  `cd ${foo}`,
  `touch ${foo}.txt`,
], options)

That being said, I think this is about orchestrating commands and Execa should focus on single command execution and let users build utilities on top of it instead. So I would vote for keeping those features of Execa itself. What do you think @sindresorhus?

[sindresorhus]

I think this is outside the scope of Execa.

You have two options here:

1

const commands = [
  `mkdir ${foo}`,
  `cd ${foo}`,
  `touch ${foo}.txt`,
];

for (const command of commands) {
	await execa.command(command);
}

2

execa.command([
  `mkdir ${foo}`,
  `cd ${foo}`,
  `touch ${foo}.txt`,
].join('&&'), {shell: true});

I would strongly recommend 1.