/* * fork from https://github.com/domenic/opener */ import childProcess from 'child_process' import os from 'os' module.exports = function opener( args: string | string[], tool: string | undefined ) { let platform = process.platform args = [].concat(args) // Attempt to detect Windows Subystem for Linux (WSL). // WSL itself as Linux (which works in most cases), but in // this specific case we need to treat it as actually being Windows. // The "Windows-way" of opening things through cmd.exe works just fine here, // whereas using xdg-open does not, since there is no X Windows in WSL. if (platform === 'linux' && os.release().toLowerCase().indexOf('microsoft') !== -1) { platform = 'win32' } // http://stackoverflow.com/q/1480971/3191, but see below for Windows. let command switch (platform) { case 'win32': { command = 'cmd.exe' if (tool) { args.unshift(tool) } break } case 'darwin': { command = 'open' if (tool) { args.unshift(tool) args.unshift('-a') } break } default: { command = tool || 'xdg-open' break } } if (platform === 'win32') { // On Windows, we really want to use the "start" command. // But, the rules regarding arguments with spaces, and escaping them with quotes, // can get really arcane. So the easiest way to deal with this is to pass off the // responsibility to "cmd /c", which has that logic built in. // // Furthermore, if "cmd /c" double-quoted the first parameter, // then "start" will interpret it as a window title, // so we need to add a dummy empty-string window title: http://stackoverflow.com/a/154090/3191 // // Additionally, on Windows ampersand needs to be escaped when passed to "start" args = args.map(value => { return value.replace(/&/g, '^&') }) args = ['/c', 'start', '""'].concat(args) } return childProcess.spawn(command, args, { shell: false, detached: true }) }