Running a bash script from Meteor

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I know, it’s horrible sounding, but I’m trying to use ShellJS to run an actual bast script.

Issue is when i run pwd I see it shows the actual location to be in /home/me/project/.meteor/local/bundle/programs/server/

So, putting my script in there is a bit weird since that is a built directory, correct?

How do I refer to the “server” directory for a file? (e.g. /home/me/project/server/) and keep it consistent from install to install?

I’m certain this is fairly simple and my brain just isn’t working today, but can’t seem to wrap my head around it.

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Maybe try putting your script file under /private and accessing it using the Assets API? For example, the absolute file path method. That way you can hand-wave the actual server location of your bash file, which is probably ideal.

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Actually something rather useful, especially if done right, using child_process.spawn(). Sometimes building binaries with node-gyp is just overkill.

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Yeah I’m going to echo that this is perfectly fine. Easiest way to link different tools together and take advantage of multiple processes

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