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spawn-as-admin

Run commands with administrator privileges

Installing

npm install spawn-as-admin

Docs

spawnAsAdmin(command, arguments)

Launches a new process with the given command, and arguments.

Returns an AdminProcess object that implements a subset of node's ChildProcess API:

Properties:

• pid - The child process's process ID.
• stdin - A WritableStream representing the process's standard input.
• stdout - A ReadableStream representing the process's standard output.

Methods:

• kill([signal]) - Sends the given signal to the child process. If no signal is specified, SIGTERM will be sent.

Events:

• exit - Emitted when the process exits, and passes the exit code of the process.

Limitations

• The library only works on macOS and Windows.
• The stdin and stdout properties are only present on macOS.