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@@ -180,18 +180,6 @@ exec('echo "The \\$HOME variable is $HOME"');
**Never pass unsanitized user input to this function. Any input containing shell
metacharacters may be used to trigger arbitrary command execution.**
-```js
-const { exec } = require('child_process');
-exec('cat *.js bad_file | wc -l', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
- if (error) {
- console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
- return;
- }
- console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);
- console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
-});
-```
-
If a `callback` function is provided, it is called with the arguments
`(error, stdout, stderr)`. On success, `error` will be `null`. On error,
`error` will be an instance of [`Error`][]. The `error.code` property will be
@@ -206,6 +194,18 @@ can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
+```js
+const { exec } = require('child_process');
+exec('cat *.js missing_file | wc -l', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+ if (error) {
+ console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
+ return;
+ }
+ console.log(`stdout: ${stdout}`);
+ console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
+});
+```
+
If `timeout` is greater than `0`, the parent will send the signal
identified by the `killSignal` property (the default is `'SIGTERM'`) if the
child runs longer than `timeout` milliseconds.