child_process bg

gistfile1.txt

>>> cat blah.js
var cp = require('child_process');

var c = cp.exec('./blah.sh &', function (err) {
  if (err) {
    console.error('err: ' + err.message);
  } else {
    console.log('done');
  }
});

c.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
  console.error('stderr: ' + data);
});

c.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
  console.log('stdout: ' + data);
});


>>> cat blah.sh
#!/bin/bash

for x in {1..5}
do
  echo "numero: $x"
  sleep 2
done


>>> node blah.js
(won't exit until blah.sh is done even though it's meant to run in the background)