smart-spawn
Spawn an async process and get back stdout, handling errors
Installation
npm install smart-spawn
Usage
var smartSpawn = ; var process =
Arguments
Arguments are, in order: the name of the process to spawn, arguments passed to the subprocess, the subprocess' working directory, and a callback function.
The callback receives two arguments. The first is an Error
object which is passed if the process couldn't be spawned or if it exited with a nonzero exit code, otherwise it's undefined
. The second is the process' stdout upon its completion (regardless of any errors that may have occured).
Return value
smart-spawn
will return an instance of ChildProcess
representing the spawned subprocess.
License
LGPL 3.0+
Author
Alex Jordan alex@strugee.net