You want to run a command like file my.pdf
using NodeJS child-process.exec
and get its stdout after it’s finished.
Solution:
TL;DR: (await exec('file my.pdf')).stdout
We’re using child-process-promise here in order to simplify our implementation. Install it using npm i --save child-process-promise
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const { exec } = require('child-process-promise'); async function run () { const ret = await exec(`file my.pdf`); return ret.stdout; } run().then(console.log).catch(console.error);
You can also use .stderr
instead of .stdout
to get the stderr
output as a string