I'm using the Node JS child process to execute terminal commands and get the output of them, which is all going great. However, I'm on a WSL Windows machine, and I would like to change the type of the child processes terminal to zsh.
Below is my current code for executing a command and receiving the output.
async function execute(
command: string,
cwd: string,
): Promise<{ output: string; error: string }> {
const out = await promisify(exec)(command, { cwd: cwd });
const output = out.stdout.trim();
const error = out.stderr.trim();
return { output: output, error: error };
}
How can I change the type of the terminal from command prompt to zsh?
you can do this
exec(command , { shell : "zsh" })
you can read more about shell requirements here : https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#shell-requirements
So your code should look like this :
async function execute(
command: string,
cwd: string,
): Promise<{ output: string; error: string }> {
const out = await promisify(exec)(command, { cwd: cwd ,
shell:"zsh"});
const output = out.stdout.trim();
const error = out.stderr.trim();
return { output: output, error: error };
}