How can I pass an asterisk to one of the Deno.Command args?

Question

I am trying to execute a shell command from Deno where one of the args contains an asterisk. Example:

const output = new Deno.Command("cp", { args: ["source/*", "destination"] }).outputSync()
console.error(new TextDecoder().decode(output.stderr))

It yields:

cp: cannot stat 'source/*': No such file or directory

How can I pass an asterisk to one of the Deno.Command args?

Answer 1

Deno uses Rust's std:process::Command

Note that the argument is not passed through a shell, but given literally to the program. This means that shell syntax like quotes, escaped characters, word splitting, glob patterns, substitution, etc. have no effect.

So in order to use * you'll need to spawn a shell (sh, bash) as Glenn Jackman commented.

new Deno.Command("sh", { args: ["-c", "cp source/* destination"] }).outputSync()