Hi there
I'm new to rust and I'm trying to create a CLI using Ratatui. This CLI will have a list of commands to run like: ['comand-1', 'command-2', 'command-3']. I have successfully use std::process::Command to run the command but the problem is that the user can't interact with the cli while the command is running.
I think I can solve this with async but I don't know what module/crate/library/strat to for this use-case. Really appreciate your help.
Thankss!
If you intend to go the async route, I'd recommend Tokio as the async runtime you use, using the elements of tokio::process to run your commands.
That said, there's a simpler option; if you use Command::spawn to start the command, it runs asynchronously to your main process, and you can call Child::try_wait to check to see if the command you've started has completed yet; you also have access to stdin, stdout and stderr for the child process if that's relevant to you.
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