smarsx/node-child-basher

execute bash commands on a directory utilizing node child processes with timeouts.

node-child-basher

execute bash commands on a directory utilizing node child processes with timeouts.

Arguments

• command (use $ as placeholder for filepath)
• directory
• (optional) file end to filter directory by

ENV

• TIMEOUT (ms, default: 30000ms)

Use

• install tsc

yarn install

• build

yarn build

• execute 'head -n 1' command on every csv in directory

node dist/src/index.js "head -n 1 $" /home/user/csvs .csv

• copy all .txt files in /usr/bin to '/new' directory

node dist/src/index.js "cp -r $ /new" /usr/bin .txt

• mv all .csv files in /usr/bin to /data with 5s timeout

TIMEOUT=5000 node dist/src/index.js "mv $ /data" /usr/bin .csv

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Personal Use

• I built this tool to execute python scripts on a directory of csv files. The py scripts take a single filename as an argument and do some processing.

node dist/src/index.js "python3 myscript.py $" /dir/of/csvs .csv