How to execute a shell command using Node.js
Here’s how I ran a shell command from a Node.js script.
First I imported child from child_process:
import * as child from 'node:child_process'
//or
const child = require('node:child_process')
Then you can call child.exec() like this:
child.exec(`mkdir test`)
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