spawn-wrapper
v1.0.0
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Spawn a child_process to run while another process is running
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spawn-wrapper
Spawn a child_process to run while another process is running
Install
$ npm install --save spawn-wrapper
Usage
var spawnWrapper = require('spawn-wrapper')
var child = require('child_process')
var download = child.spawn('curl', ['http://my/file'])
spawnWrapper(download, [
'say',
['-v', 'karen', 'downloading']
])
// #=> say "downloading" until curl finishes
API
spawnWrapper(spawned, args)
-> object
Returns {stdout, stderr}
streams from the spawned wrapper process.
spawned
Required
Type: object
A spawned child from child_process.spawn
.
args
Required
Type: array
Arguments to pass to child_process.spawn
to create the wrapper process.
License
MIT © Ben Drucker