Open TimCreasman opened 4 hours ago
Hi @TimCreasman,
Execa does not use shells, so it does not use shell-specific syntax like >>
. I think you did understand this, but I wanted to clarify, just in case.
That being said, we do try to emulate shell features. In this case, this would be appending to a file.
You can achieve this by doing:
await execa(..., {stdout: [createWriteStream('output.txt', {flags: 'a'}), 'pipe']})
Now, that's a little verbose, so we could maybe add the following syntax instead:
await execa(..., {stdout: {file: 'output.txt', append: true}})
What do you think @sindresorhus?
@ehmicky
Full disclosure, I did not understand that so thanks for the clarification. I see now this project essentially wraps node's child_process
functionality (and if I had read the very first paragraph of this repo I would already have known that haha). I only just started using execa this week having moved from shelljs - loving it so far 👍
And thanks for the example! The second syntax example would be very nice but its good knowing the functionality is already easily available and not crazy verbose.
Hello!
Apologies if I missed this in the documentation or the closed issues, but is there support for the
>>
redirection operator?From my understanding, the single
>
bracket is essentially supported via theexeca({stdout: {file: 'output.txt'}})
syntax but I couldn't find anything referencing>>
.>>
is supposed to append the stdout to a file so maybe a syntax likeexeca({stdout: {append: 'output.txt'}})
would make sense?