From c6259cfa620a242bd9e2ca3bd30793b673edaf81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ztimson <zaktimson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:01:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Better stdout capturing

---
 package.json |  2 +-
 src/cli.ts   | 16 +++++-----------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 02dba5d..5a31322 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@ztimson/node-utils",
-	"version": "1.0.5",
+	"version": "1.0.6",
 	"description": "CSS Utility Classes",
 	"author": "ztimson",
 	"license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index f9bbb11..bb02e64 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-import {execSync, spawn} from 'node:child_process';
+import {exec, execSync} 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) => {
-		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());
-		});
-	});
+	return new Promise((res, rej) => exec(cmd, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
+		if(err) return rej(stderr || err);
+		return res((stdout || stderr).trim());
+	}))
 }
 
 export function $Sync(str: TemplateStringsArray, ...args: string[]): string {