# spawn-please

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50 LOC syntactic sugar for [cross-spawn](https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn).

- Promisified child_process.spawn
- Easily pass stdin
- Rejects on stderr

## Install

```sh
$ npm install --save spawn-please
```

## Usage

> `await spawn(command, [arguments], [stdin], [options])`

`options` are passed directly to `child_process.spawn`.

```js
const spawn = require('spawn-please')

const output = await spawn('printf', ['please?'])
assert.equal(output, 'please?')
```

### How is this different than other child_process libraries?

Allows you to pass a string on stdin:

```js
const output = await spawn('cat', [], 'test')
assert.equal(output, 'test')
```

Rejects on any stderr by default:

```js
try {
  spawn('some-command-with-stderr')
} catch (stderr) {
  // do something with stderr
}
```

Capture both stdout and stderr:

```js
let stdout = ''
let stderr = ''
spawn('some-command-with-stderr', [], undefined, {
  rejectOnError: false,
  stdout: data => (stdout += data),
  stderr: data => (stderr += data),
})
```

## License

ISC © [Raine Revere](https://github.com/raineorshine)