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# cross-spawn-async
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A cross platform solution to node's spawn.
**This module is deprecated, use [cross-spawn](https://github.com/IndigoUnited/node-cross-spawn) instead which no longer requires a build toolchain.**
## Installation
`$ npm install cross-spawn-async`
## Why
Node has issues when using spawn on Windows:
- It ignores [PATHEXT](https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2318)
- It does not support [shebangs](http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang)
- It does not allow you to run `del` or `dir`
- It does not properly escape arguments with spaces or special characters
All these issues are handled correctly by `cross-spawn-async`.
There are some known modules, such as [win-spawn](https://github.com/ForbesLindesay/win-spawn), that try to solve this but they are either broken or provide faulty escaping of shell arguments.
## Usage
Exactly the same way as node's [`spawn`](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_spawn_command_args_options), so it's a drop in replacement.
```javascript
var spawn = require('cross-spawn-async');
var child = spawn('npm', ['list', '-g', '-depth', '0'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
```
## Tests
`$ npm test`
## License
Released under the [MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
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