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| author | Gabor Szabo <gszabo@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-10-19 04:45:00 +0300 |
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| committer | Kat Marchán <kzm@sykosomatic.org> | 2017-10-19 04:45:00 +0300 |
| commit | a9dc098a6eb7a87895f52a101ac0d41492da698e (patch) | |
| tree | a9c9e4799be576087aee90dc3e098b128cef7a4b /doc | |
| parent | be67de7b90790cef0a9f63f91c2f1a00942205ee (diff) | |
docs: write about script-shell config (#18679)
PR-URL: https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/18679
Credit: @gszabo
Reviewed-By: @iarna
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cli/npm-run-script.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/cli/npm-run-script.md b/doc/cli/npm-run-script.md index 9ddff83c9..314abf37b 100644 --- a/doc/cli/npm-run-script.md +++ b/doc/cli/npm-run-script.md @@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ instead of to run your tests. +The actual shell your script is run within is platform dependent. By default, +on Unix-like systems it is the `/bin/sh` command, on Windows it is the `cmd.exe`. +The actual shell referred to by `/bin/sh` also depends on the system. +As of [`npm@5.1.0`](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.1.0) you can +customize the shell with the `script-shell` configuration. + Scripts are run from the root of the module, regardless of what your current working directory is when you call `npm run`. If you want your script to use different behavior based on what subdirectory you're in, you can use the @@ -69,3 +75,4 @@ You can use the `--silent` flag to prevent showing `npm ERR!` output on error. * npm-start(1) * npm-restart(1) * npm-stop(1) +* npm-config(7) |