Is there a way to launch a terminal window (or cmd on Windows) and pass/run a command?

Question

Question

Is it possible to do the following?

• open a new cmd.exe or terminal (on MacOS / Linux) window

• pass /

Answer 1

Solution

I finally found a way to do it on Windows:

var child_process = require('child_process');
child_process.exec("start cmd.exe /K cd /D C:/test");

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Notes

• You have to add the word start to open a new command window

• Instead of cd /D C:/test you can specify any other command, e.g. python

• /D is to make sure it will change the current drive automatically, depending on the path specified

• /K removes the initial message

• Don't use execSync it will lock the app until the terminal (command prompt) window is closed

As for MacOS, looks like it's possible to do with osascript

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down'