Here’s how I ran a shell command from a Node.js script.

First I imported child from child_process:

import * as child from 'node:child_process'

//or 

const child = require('node:child_process')

Then you can call child.exec() like this:

child.exec(`mkdir test`)

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	▶︎ How to execute a shell command using Node.js
2:	How to spawn a child process with Node.js
3:	Node, accept arguments from the command line
4:	Accept input from the command line in Node
5:	How to log an object in Node
6:	Output to the command line using Node
7:	How to exit from a Node.js program