Why

Install

Usage

Pipe the child process stdout to the parent

Handling Errors

Cancelling a spawned process

Catching an error with the sync method

Kill a process

API

execa(file, arguments, options?)

kill(signal?, options?)

options.forceKillAfterTimeout

cancel()

all

execa.sync(file, arguments?, options?)

execa.command(command, options?)

execa.commandSync(command, options?)

execa.node(scriptPath, arguments?, options?)

childProcessResult

command

escapedCommand

exitCode

stdout

stderr

all

failed

timedOut

isCanceled

killed

signal

signalDescription

message

shortMessage

originalMessage

options

cleanup

preferLocal

localDir

execPath

buffer

input

stdin

stdout

stderr

all

reject

stripFinalNewline

extendEnv

cwd

env

argv0

stdio

serialization

detached

uid

gid

shell

encoding

timeout

maxBuffer

killSignal

windowsVerbatimArguments

windowsHide

nodePath (For `.node()` only)

nodeOptions (For `.node()` only)

Tips

Retry on error

Save and pipe output from a child process

Redirect output to a file

Redirect input from a file

Execute the current package's binary

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