Question

I’m currently porting some batch files to node.js. I feel more comfortable writing in JavaScript but for simple operations like copying a file, instead of:

copy in.txt out.txt

we have to write some more words…:

var fs = require ("fs");
var file = fs.createReadStream ("in.txt");
var newFile = fs.createWriteStream ("out.txt");

newFile.once ("open", function (fd){
    require ("util").pump (file, newFile);
});

If we want to remove a directory and all its content we have to use a recursive function, so 2 simple lines in batch are equivalent to a lot of lines in node.js.

I think that node.js it’s so flexible and powerful and you know that windows cmd sucks, so I’m asking here if someone knows a good unix-style command line interpreter for node.js.

Thanks.

EDIT: I’ve done a FileUtils library for node.js -> https://github.com/Gagle/Node-FileUtils

Answer 1

Thy ShellJS: https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs