Issue on docs - bun exec ?

[jff1625]

Path: /runtime/shell

What happened to bun exec ?
I have in my package.json from a long time ago, a script: "clear:dist": "bun exec 'rm -rf dist'",
It still works, even on Windows/pwsh, but I can't find any reference to bun exec in the docs.

Is it deprecated? Should I stop using it?

[sizvix]

It seems "bun exec" is deprecated ( #22527 )

[jboyesreach]

It seems "bun exec" is deprecated ( #22527 )

That looks like a within-js thing db.exec(...

I'm referring to an outside-js cli thing bun exec '...'

[RiskyMH]

bun exec is effectively bun shell (Bun.$). Additionally of you use windows, bun run uses this shell instead of normal cmd to run the package.json command to allow the posix commands like rm and env var setting

And im not in team anymore, but i wouldn't say its deprecated or going to be removed

[jff1625]

ah, ok.
bun exec 'rm -rf dist'
bun run rm -rf dist
Both do the same thing, Even on windows. So I guess run absorbed exec with a slightly simpler syntax.

I think it's still a gap in the docs - that you can use these Bun.$ shell commands in cli via bun run now.

[RiskyMH]

No, like

bun exec 'rm -rf dist'

is the same as:

// package.json
{ 
  "scripts": {
    "clean": "rm -rf dist"
  }
}

bun run clean

(when running on windows, otherwise this rm -rf is handled by your terminal)

or

// index.ts
Bun.$`rm -rf dist`

[jff1625]

Oh, cool. that works too. So now there's not even a hint that it'll work cross-os, unless you've read the docs ;-)

By which I mean:

"scripts": {
    "clean": "rm -rf dist"
  }

...looks like it will NOT work on windows, but it does via bun.

found it hiding here:
https://bun.com/docs/runtime

Bun executes the script command in a subshell. On Linux & macOS, it checks for the following shells in order, using the first one it finds: bash, sh, zsh. On Windows, it uses bun shell to support bash-like syntax and many common commands.