Running Shell Scripts

Method 1. Use app.doShellScript

https://github.com/dtinth/JXA-Cookbook/wiki/Shell-and-CLI-Interactions#running-shell-scripts

Example

app.doShellScript('ls')
  //    => "README.md\rbutton.svg"

Note

Method 2. Use Cocoa

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27586694/pipe-to-subprocess-stdin-for-jxa

Example

ObjC.import('Cocoa')
var stdin = $.NSPipe.pipe
var stdout = $.NSPipe.pipe
var task = $.NSTask.alloc.init
task.launchPath = "/bin/cat"
task.standardInput = stdin
task.standardOutput = stdout

task.launch

var dataIn = $("foo$HOME'|\"").dataUsingEncoding($.NSUTF8StringEncoding)
stdin.fileHandleForWriting.writeData(dataIn)
stdin.fileHandleForWriting.closeFile

var dataOut = stdout.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile
var stringOut = $.NSString.alloc.initWithDataEncoding(dataOut, $.NSUTF8StringEncoding).js
console.log(stringOut)

Note

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