How to execute an external program from within Node js

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Is it possible to execute an external program from within node.js? Is there an equivalent to Python's os.system() or any library that adds this functionality?
Jul 17, 2020 in Node-js by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

Exec has memory limitation of buffer size of 512k. In this case it is better to use spawn. With spawn one has access to stdout of executed command at run time

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var prc = spawn('java',  ['-jar', '-Xmx512M', '-Dfile.encoding=utf8', 'script/importlistings.jar']);

//noinspection JSUnresolvedFunction
prc.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
prc.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
    var str = data.toString()
    var lines = str.split(/(\r?\n)/g);
    console.log(lines.join(""));
});

prc.on('close', function (code) {
    console.log('process exit code ' + code);
});

Hope this is helpful!!

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answered Jul 17, 2020 by Niroj
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