JScript / Windows Script Host 中的 UNIX `exec` 等价物

Question

I've got a .js file that's meant to be executed by Node.js on the command-line. I've got everything set up with npm and such to put the file into the user's path as a "bin". My problem is, because the file ends in .js, running it from the command line is shipping it off to the JScript-based Windows Script Host, instead of node, as expected.

I'm trying to write a JScript wrapper, to sit at myprogram.js , be executed by Windows Script Host, and ship off to Node.js. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like WScript's Exec command behaves like the UNIX exec command:

var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var proc = shell.exec("node .\\Library\\executable.js");

while (proc.Status === 0) {
     WScript.Sleep(100);
}

WScript.Echo(proc.Status);

This buffers the program's output, and exposes it via some sort of JScript WshScriptExec object.

I need a script, or a feature, or some other way, to hand the entire terminal over to the command-line script I'm launching. Most usefully, I'd like to replace the JScript process that's executing, with the process for the command that I'm executing (ie UNIX- exec -y behaviour.) Is there any way to do this, or some other way to solve my problem?

Answer 1

Avoid the .js suffix completely so you get the same unadorned command name, eg executable , on all platforms.

Do so by setting bin in package.json as follows and npm will sort it:

{ "bin" : { "executable" : "./executable.js" } }

Source and further details: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#bin