Execute Command from Node Webkit

Question

I want to run a command inside of a script tag within my index.html file using node webkit. Is such a thing possible and how would the code look like if I wanted to execute the command 'pwd' for example?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Does something like this not work?

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var child;
// executes `pwd`
child = exec("pwd", function (error, stdout, stderr) {
 sys.print('stdout: ' + stdout);
 sys.print('stderr: ' + stderr);
 if (error !== null) {
 console.log('exec error: ' + error);
 }
});

• user2554585: thanks worked as expected, would this work for executing an entire shell script as well?
• tier1: It should. As long as you have the path to the script.
• lima_fil: It didn't work for me. I tried several commands. I'm always getting: Error: spawn ENOENT

Answer 2

The documentation for node webkit states:

Complete support for Node.js APIs and all its third party modules.

Which would indicate that you could use the node childprocess api:

http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html