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Created November 13, 2012 16:27
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A snippet with a windows dir command for people doing www.nodebeginner.org that aren't using cygwin and are running some form of Windows
var exec = require("child_process").exec;
function start(response) {
console.log("Request handler 'start' was called.");
// find all Excel files recursively
exec("dir C:\\ *.xls /s",
{ timeout: 10000, maxBuffer: 20000*1024 },
function (error, stdout, stderr) {
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write(stdout);
response.end();
});
}
function upload(response) {
console.log("Request handler 'upload' was called.");
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write("Hello Upload");
response.end();
}
exports.start = start;
exports.upload = upload;
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