cross-spawn

A cross platform solution to node's spawn.

Installation

$ npm install cross-spawn

Why

Node has issues when using spawn on Windows:

It ignores PATHEXT
It does not support shebangs
It does not allow you to run del or dir

All these issues are handled correctly by cross-spawn. There are some known modules, such as win-spawn, that try to solve this but they are either broken or provide faulty escaping of shell arguments.

Usage

Exactly the same way as node's spawn, so it's a drop in replacement.

Tests

$ npm test

License

Released under the MIT License.