node.js - Use child_process.execSync but keep output in console

Question

I'd like to use the execSync method which was added in NodeJS 0.12 but still have the output in the console window from which i ran the Node script.

E.g. if I run a NodeJS script which has the following line I'd like to see the full output of the rsync command "live" inside the console:

require('child_process').execSync('rsync -avAXz --info=progress2 "/src" "/dest"');

I understand that execSync returns the ouput of the command and that I could print that to the console after execution but this way I don't have "live" output...

Answer 1

You can pass the parent′s stdio to the child process if that′s what you want:

require('child_process').execSync(
    'rsync -avAXz --info=progress2 "/src" "/dest"',
    {stdio: 'inherit'}
);