#!/usr/bin/env node "use strict"; var childProcess = require("child_process"); function opener(args, options, callback) { // http://stackoverflow.com/q/1480971/3191, but see below for Windows. var command = process.platform === "win32" ? "cmd" : process.platform === "darwin" ? "open" : "xdg-open"; if (typeof args === "string") { args = [args]; } if (typeof options === "function") { callback = options; options = {}; } if (options && typeof options === "object" && options.command) { if (process.platform === "win32") { // *always* use cmd on windows args = [options.command].concat(args); } else { command = options.command; } } if (process.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 needs 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); } // Export `opener` for programmatic access. // You might use this to e.g. open a website: `opener("http://google.com")` module.exports = opener; // If we're being called from the command line, just execute, using the command-line arguments. if (require.main && require.main.id === module.id) { opener(process.argv.slice(2), function (error) { if (error) { throw error; } }); }