Running a command in a Grunt Task

Question

I\'m using Grunt (task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects) in my project. I\'ve created a custom tag and I am wondering if it is possible to run a command

Answer 1

If you are using the latest grunt version (0.4.0rc7 at the time of this writing) both grunt-exec and grunt-shell fail (they don't seem to be updated to handle the latest grunt). On the other hand, child_process's exec is async, which is a hassle.

I ended up using Jake Trent's solution, and adding shelljs as a dev dependency on my project so I could just run tests easily and synchronously:

var shell = require('shelljs');

...

grunt.registerTask('jquery', "download jquery bundle", function() {
  shell.exec('wget http://jqueryui.com/download/jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.zip');
});