How to use child-process-promise

Question

var promise = require('child-process-promise').spawn;

promise('some_command_producing_output')
    .then(function (result) {
        ...
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        ...
    });

What I want is to add some processing after command produced output in stdout. So finally I want to create a function to use like this:

RunCommandAndProcess('some_command_producing_output')
    .then(function (result) {
        ...
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        ...
    });

The function should use promise from child-process-promise, wait until successful result produced and return promise for processing data.

Answer 1

Welcome to Stack Overflow @ScHoolboy.

I cansuggest you use a basic child-process module from Node.js and promising it yourself in the following way

const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

const spawnPromise = (cmd, args) => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    try {
      const runCommand = spawn(cmd, args);
      runCommand.stdout.on('data', data => resolve(data.toString()));
      runCommand.on('error', err => {
        throw new Error(err.message);
      });
    } catch (e) {
      reject(e);
    }
  });
};

Where:

• cmd - command, for example, "echo"
• args: array of arguments, for example ["Hello world"]

You can call the function as RunCommandAndProcess if you need :)

Example of usage:

spawnPromise('ls', ['-la']).then(data => console.log('data: ', data));

Or

const result = await spawnPromise('ls', ['-la']);