"use strict"; var childProcess = require("child_process"); var os = require("os"); module.exports = function opener(args, options, callback) { var platform = process.platform; // Attempt to detect Windows Subystem for Linux (WSL). WSL itself as Linux (which works in most cases), but in // this specific case we need to treat it as actually being Windows. The "Windows-way" of opening things through // cmd.exe works just fine here, whereas using xdg-open does not, since there is no X Windows in WSL. if (platform === "linux" && os.release().indexOf("Microsoft") !== -1) { platform = "win32"; } // http://stackoverflow.com/q/1480971/3191, but see below for Windows. var command; switch (platform) { case "win32": { command = "cmd.exe"; break; } case "darwin": { command = "open"; break; } default: { command = "xdg-open"; break; } } if (typeof args === "string") { args = [args]; } if (typeof options === "function") { callback = options; options = {}; } if (options && typeof options === "object" && options.command) { if (platform === "win32") { // *always* use cmd on windows args = [options.command].concat(args); } else { command = options.command; } } if (platform === "win32") { // On Windows, we really want to use the "start" command. But, the rules regarding arguments with spaces, and // escaping them with quotes, can get really arcane. So the easiest way to deal with this is to pass off the // responsibility to "cmd /c", which has that logic built in. // // Furthermore, if "cmd /c" double-quoted the first parameter, then "start" will interpret it as a window title, // so we need to add a dummy empty-string window title: http://stackoverflow.com/a/154090/3191 // // Additionally, on Windows ampersand and caret need to be escaped when passed to "start" args = args.map(function (value) { return value.replace(/[&^]/g, "^$&"); }); args = ["/c", "start", "\"\""].concat(args); } return childProcess.execFile(command, args, options, callback); };