how to run commands through the user shell with deno?

[joaomelo]

I'm trying to build a simple CLI tool to run dev scripts with Deno. The goal is to create cross-platform scripts with type safety.

I'm not succeeding with Deno.run(). I think this is due to part of my scripts are based on global packages installed with NPM like, for example, the firebase CLI tool.

If i run something like this:

  const { code } = await Deno.run({
    cmd: ["firebase", "emulators:start"],
  }).status();

I get this error

error: Uncaught (in promise) NotFound: O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado. (os error 2)
  const { code } = await Deno.run({

I found some clarification in this issue about echo. But, I'm afraid if I prefix everything with "cmd", "/c", the program will tie itself to the OS. Is this a valid assumption?

Is there another API that enables us to run commands through the current shell instead of attempt to find binaries in the system directly?

I think in node this is done with something like this:

    const p = spawn("firebase emulators:start", {
      shell: true,
    });

Thanks for the awesome tool.
JM

[iugo]

demo:

// git commit
const res = Deno.run({
  cmd: ['git', 'commit', '-a', '-m', str],
  stdout: 'piped',
  stderr: 'piped',
});
const commitMsg = new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(await res.output());
const errMsg = new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(await res.stderrOutput());
console.log({ commitMsg, errMsg });