Error ENOENT on child process when executing command in javascript

Question

I want to execute aws-vault with 2 arguments as a script in my package.json. Therfore I created a little helper script:

deploy.js

const { spawn } = require('child_process');
const args = process.argv.slice(2);

const child = spawn(
  `aws-vault exec ${args[0]} -- sls deploy --stage ${args[1]}`,
);

child.on('close', code => {
  console.log(`aws-vault process exited with code ${code}`);
});

and in my package.json the script is defined like this:

"scripts": {
    "start": "serverless offline --httpPort=4000",
    "deploy": "node deploy.js $@"}

but when I run yarn deploy myprofile mystage

I receive the following error:

 errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn aws-vault exec myprofile -- sls deploy --stage mystage',
  path: 'aws-vault exec myprofile -- sls deploy --stage mystage',
  spawnargs: []

I am not sure what I missed... the command looks correct

Answer 1

you can set the { shell: true } and try again.

const child = spawn(
  `aws-vault exec ${args[0]} -- sls deploy --stage ${args[1]}`,
  [],
  { shell: true }
);