#Node - Processes
To launch an external shell command or executable file you can use the child_process
. Apart from command line arguments and environment variables you cannot communicate with the process using child_process.exec
. However you can use child_process.spawn
to create a more integrated processes.
##Executing Child Processes
###To launch an external shell command
var child_process = require('child_process');
var exec = child_process.exec;