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42 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Limited
maintenance
Inactive
community
Limited

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Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
0.1.1	\|	08/2014	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

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Popularity

Limited

Weekly Downloads (0)

GitHub Stars: 1
Forks: 0
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package yawn receives a total of 0 downloads a week. As such, we scored yawn popularity level to be Limited.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package yawn, we found that it has been starred 1 times.

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Community

Limited

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 0
Funding: Yes

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

No Recent Commits

Open Issues: 0
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 11 years ago
Last Commit: 11 years ago

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An important project maintenance signal to consider for yawn is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: not defined

Age: 11 years
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 3
Install Size: 0 B
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 0
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

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Readme

yawn

Super small wrapper around Node.js child_process.spawn, pretty boring actually.

yawn

var yawn = require('yawn');

yawn('ls', [ '-la' ], { trackStdout: true } , function (err, res) {
  if (err) return console.error(err);
  // res is a Buffer
  console.log('Result', res.toString());    
})

Result total 48
drwxr-xr-x   11 thlorenz  staff   374 Aug 27 20:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  105 thlorenz  staff  3570 Aug 27 20:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x   13 thlorenz  staff   442 Aug 27 20:16 .git
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff    97 Aug 27 20:16 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff    48 Aug 27 20:16 .travis.yml
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff  1078 Aug 27 20:16 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff   318 Aug 27 20:54 README.md
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff  1896 Aug 27 20:54 index.js
drwxr-xr-x    4 thlorenz  staff   136 Aug 27 20:27 node_modules
-rw-r--r--    1 thlorenz  staff   774 Aug 27 20:17 package.json
drwxr-xr-x    3 thlorenz  staff   102 Aug 27 20:16 test

Installation

npm install yawn

API

yawn(command, argv, opts, cb) → {Object}

Runs the given command with the provided options.

WARNING: when trackStdout is set, the output of the process is buffered which may lead to large amount of memory usage

Parameters:

Name Type Description

command

string

command to run, i.e. ls

argv

Array.<string>

arguments to pass to child_process.spawn, i.e. -la

opts

Object

options passed to child_process.spawn

Properties

Name	Type	Description
`trackStderr`	boolean	if `true`, the given callback is invoked with an error whenever any output into `stderr` is encountered (default: false)
`trackStdout`	boolean	if `true`, the given callback is invoked with the data piped to `stdout` as a Buffer when the process is finished (default: false)

cb

function

(optional), if supplied it is invoked when processed finished

Source:

index.js , lineno 6

Returns:

the spawned process

Type: Object

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License

MIT

yawn development dependencies

tap

FAQs

What is yawn?

Super small wrapper around Node.js child_process.spawn, pretty boring actually. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for yawn, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is yawn popular?

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Is yawn well maintained?

We found indications that yawn is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is yawn safe to use?

The npm package yawn was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 6 December-2025, at 00:19 (UTC).

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