node js interact with shell application

Question

There are plenty of node js examples on online about how to spawn a child process and then catch the result as a string for your own processing.

But...

I wan

Answer 1

var child = require('child_process');
var ps = child.spawn('python', ['-i']);
ps.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
ps.stdin.write('1+1');
ps.stdin.end();

works a treat!