execute multiple shell commands in series on node.js

example.js

// USAGE ------
// ============

var shell = require('./shellHelper');

// execute a single shell command
shell.exec('npm test --coverage', function(err){
    console.log('executed test');
}});


// execute multiple commands in series
shell.series([
    'node build release'
    'git add -A',
    'git commit --verbose'
], function(err){
   console.log('executed many commands in a row'); 
});

shellHelper.js

// spawn a child process and execute shell command
// borrowed from https://github.com/mout/mout/ build script
// author Miller Medeiros
// released under MIT License
// version: 0.1.0 (2013/02/01)


// execute a single shell command where "cmd" is a string
exports.exec = function(cmd, cb){
    // this would be way easier on a shell/bash script :P
    var child_process = require('child_process');
    var parts = cmd.split(/\s+/g);
    var p = child_process.spawn(parts[0], parts.slice(1), {stdio: 'inherit'});
    p.on('exit', function(code){
        var err = null;
        if (code) {
            err = new Error('command "'+ cmd +'" exited with wrong status code "'+ code +'"');
            err.code = code;
            err.cmd = cmd;
        }
        if (cb) cb(err);
    });
};


// execute multiple commands in series
// this could be replaced by any flow control lib
exports.series = function(cmds, cb){
    var execNext = function(){
        exports.exec(cmds.shift(), function(err){
            if (err) {
                cb(err);
            } else {
                if (cmds.length) execNext();
                else cb(null);
            }
        });
    };
    execNext();
};

maybe you can use g3l.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/g3l

Is there a way to log the terminal output from running commands with this?

the shell.series results that no way to pass a shell command containing whitespaces inside a string

thanks!

var chalk = require('chalk')
const { exec } = require('child_process');

var version = require('../version')
var type = process.argv[2],
    moduler = process.argv[3],
    message = process.argv.slice(4, process.argv.length).join(' '),
    commands = [
      "git add .",
      "git commit -m \"" + type + "@" + version.pro_version + "(" + moduler + "): " + message + "\"",
      "git push origin $(git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD)"
    ]

var exec_commands = (commands) => {
  var command = commands.shift()
  exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
    console.log(chalk.gray("$ ") + chalk.yellow(command))
    console.log("")
    if (error) {
      console.error(chalk.red(error));
      process.exit(1)
      return;
    }
    if(stdout) console.log(chalk.gray(stdout));
    if(stderr) console.log(chalk.gray(stderr));

    if(commands.length) exec_commands(commands)
  });
}
exec_commands(commands)

It cannot support this situation: cd to somewhere and then execute the command under that path

It cannot support this situation: cd to somewhere and then execute the command under that path

you found a solution for this ?

I would also like to see a solution that allows me to pipe the output from one command to the next, like any unix shell allows. For example: find . -name "*.js" | sort | uniq | wc -l

can we pass env variables here like below?

cycle=312 node index.js

I would also like to see a solution that allows me to pipe the output from one command to the next, like any unix shell allows. For example: find . -name "*.js" | sort | uniq | wc -l

you can use async.workflow (https://caolan.github.io/async/v3/), that does exactly what you are hoping for

if that's not enough, please take a look at https://caolan.github.io/highland/ it does in style of streams