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Read stderr from a child process
Pipe the stderr of a child process started with Bun.spawn() and read it as a ReadableStream.
When you spawn a child process with Bun.spawn(), it inherits the stderr of the spawning process. To read and handle stderr instead, set the stderr option to "pipe".
const proc = Bun.spawn(["echo", "hello"], {
stderr: "pipe",
});
proc.stderr; // => ReadableStream
To read stderr until the child process exits, use .text().
const proc = Bun.spawn(["echo", "hello"], {
stderr: "pipe",
});
const errors: string = await proc.stderr.text();
if (errors) {
// handle errors
}
See Child processes.