I'm currently porting some batch files to node.js. I feel more fortable 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 mand line interpreter for node.js.

Thanks.

EDIT: I've done a FileUtils library for node.js ->

I'm currently porting some batch files to node.js. I feel more fortable 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 mand line interpreter for node.js.

Thanks.

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

• javascript
• windows
• node.js
• mand-line
• cmd

• 3 To me, this question reads a lot like "I want to use this hammer to drive this screw in." Why not use a shell scripting language (e.g. bash, from Cygwin) to do this? – Thomas Commented Mar 25, 2012 at 19:28
• Cygwin it's more oriented to provide an environment to pile C/C++ files in Windows and of course it can be used to write unix-style scripts. But I'm asking a specific package for node.js to ease the wokr of moving, copying, deleting, showing the content of a file/directory, creating empty files, etc. with simple mands. It could be an excellent module that so many people will use. I'm just giving ideas... – Gabriel Llamas Commented Mar 25, 2012 at 19:39
• Well, you asked for a mand-line interpreter, not a filesystem manipulation module. – Thomas Commented Mar 25, 2012 at 19:47

3 Answers 3

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

You are using the wrong tools. You would be far better off with BASH or Python. Personally I use Python on systems at work as itis almost ideal for such efforts.

You could try the fileutils package. It's short on documentation, but a quick skim through its source reveals copyFileToFile and copyFileIntoDir functions, and an rm method that recursively removes directories.