From a5e940b003f396f4839fe5a4386b329920672525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ztimson <zaktimson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:36:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed exec helper return

---
 package.json |  2 +-
 src/cli.ts   | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 73eeb63..7d77a35 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@ztimson/node-utils",
-	"version": "1.0.4",
+	"version": "1.0.5",
 	"description": "CSS Utility Classes",
 	"author": "ztimson",
 	"license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index 54f025c..34332c0 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-import {exec, execSync} from 'child_process';
+import {execSync} from 'child_process';
+import {spawn} from 'node:child_process';
 
 export function $(str: TemplateStringsArray, ...args: string[]): Promise<string> {
 	let cmd = str.reduce((acc, part, i) => acc + part + (args[i] || ''), '');
-	return new Promise((res, rej) => exec(cmd, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
-		if(err) return rej(stderr || err);
-		return res(stdout);
-	}))
+	return new Promise((res, rej) => {
+		const proc = spawn(cmd, {shell: true});
+		let stdout = '', stderr = '';
+		proc.stdout.on('data', (data) => stdout += data);
+		proc.stderr.on('data', (data) => stderr += data);
+		proc.on('close', (code) => {
+			if(code !== 0) return rej(new Error(stderr || stdout));
+			res(stdout.trim());
+		});
+	});
 }
 
 export function $Sync(str: TemplateStringsArray, ...args: string[]): string {