better-shell-utils

Modern utilities to substitute Bash shell script commands using Node.js; errors management, async/await, and a mini CLI.

First skeleton version

✅ Features

• FS common commands (mkdir, rm, cp, mv, cat) in async/await version
• Robust errors managment and clear logging
• Secur shell commands execution (execa)
• Dry-run option for tests
• Integrated CLI

🚀 Install

npm install

✅ Example

import { init, ensureDir, mergeFiles, runCommand } from 'better-shell-utils';

init({ verbose: true, dryRun: false });

await ensureDir('logs');
await mergeFiles('logs/merged.txt', ['a.txt', 'b.txt']);
await runCommand('pm2', ['restart', 'my-app']);

✅ CLI use example

npx better-shell mkdir logs
npx better-shell merge --output logs/merged.txt --files a.txt b.txt
npx better-shell exec "pm2 restart my-app"