Launch an external application from node.js

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you can do this

var cp = require("child_process");
cp.exec("document.docx"); // notice this without a callback..
process.exit(0); // exit this nodejs process

it not safe thought, to ensure that the command show no errors or any undesired output

you should add the callback parameter
child_process.exec(cmd,function(error,stdout,stderr){})

and next you can work with events so you won’t block execution of script or even make use of a external node.js script that launches and handles outputs from processes which you spawn from a “master” script.

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