Add a command to negate the exit code of some other command
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Description
I couldn't find any way to do this in a cross-platform way. POSIX shell has the ! operator that can do that, but I couldn't find a way to do it on Windows. It could work like an exec command that negates the exit code of the execution.
Sample use case: Stop a commit using husky if any file contains string DO_NOT_COMMIT_THIS. "pre-commit": "shx not grep -rq DO_NOT_COMMIT_THIS ."
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Research direction
Start with the existing exec command and the command-dispatch entry point, then trace how exit codes are handled on each supported platform. Use the proposed shx not grep -rq DO_NOT_COMMIT_THIS . example to define the expected behavior: the new command should execute its argument and negate the resulting exit code consistently on Windows and POSIX systems.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100