@actions/exec
You can use this package to execute your tools on the command line in a cross platform way:
const exec = require('@actions/exec'); await exec.exec('node index.js');
You can also pass in arg arrays:
const exec = require('@actions/exec'); await exec.exec('node', ['index.js', 'foo=bar']);
Capture output or specify other options:
const exec = require('@actions/exec'); let myOutput = ''; let myError = ''; const options = {}; options.listeners = { stdout: (data: Buffer) => { myOutput += data.toString(); }, stderr: (data: Buffer) => { myError += data.toString(); } }; options.cwd = './lib'; await exec.exec('node', ['index.js', 'foo=bar'], options);
You can use it in conjunction with the which
function from @actions/io
to execute tools that are not in the PATH:
const exec = require('@actions/exec'); const io = require('@actions/io'); const pythonPath: string = await io.which('python', true) await exec.exec(`"${pythonPath}"`, ['main.py']);