JS | Executing Shell Commands

For simple shell commands on Node, say ls:

const execSync = require('child_process').execSync;commandStr = 'whatever_you_want'const output = execSync(commandStr, { encoding: 'utf-8' });

Resources:

• [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880198/how-to-execute-shell-command-in-javascript

• [2] https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html