A snippet with a windows dir command for people doing www.nodebeginner.org that aren't using cygwin and are running some form of Windows

requestHandlers.js

var exec = require("child_process").exec;

function start(response) {
  console.log("Request handler 'start' was called.");

// find all Excel files recursively
  exec("dir C:\\ *.xls /s",
  	{ timeout: 10000, maxBuffer: 20000*1024 },
	function (error, stdout, stderr) {
	response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
	response.write(stdout);
	response.end();
	});
}

function upload(response) {
  console.log("Request handler 'upload' was called.");
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.write("Hello Upload");
  response.end();
}

exports.start = start;
exports.upload = upload;