> running external commands and reuse their output isn't as easy as it
should be.
How hard is it to do exec rm -rf /
or if you are coffeescript-impaired ...
exec('rm -rf /');
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:33 AM, lith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> I'm curious on people's experiences with using Node.JS for sys-admin
>> scripts or non-Web glue stuff - i.e. the sorts of things you might use Perl
>> or Python for (e.g. log parsing, manipulating config files etc.)
>>
>> Is Node.JS suitable for these things?
>>
>
> The main hurdle is node's asynchronous paradigm that doesn't exactly lend
> itself to script logic. E.g. running external commands and reuse their
> output isn't as easy as it should be. Most of the time there are npm
> packages to make life easier (for the moment) but on the long run you'd
> better learn to write your scripts in an async manner -- if you want to
> take that road. So far, I like the async scripts I've written in node,
> which I would have otherwise written in ruby.
>
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