import which from "which" import execa from "execa" let isSudoCache: boolean | undefined = undefined /** * Detect if sudo is available and the user has root privileges * * @note it caches the result for the subsequent calls to this function. */ export function isSudo(): boolean { if (isSudoCache !== undefined) { return isSudoCache } // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/strict-boolean-expressions, @typescript-eslint/no-unnecessary-condition isSudoCache = (Boolean(process.env.CI) || isRoot()) && which.sync("sudo", { nothrow: true }) !== null return isSudoCache } /** Detect if the process has root privileges */ export function isRoot(): boolean { return process.getuid?.() === 0 } /** Prepend `sudo` to the command if sudo is available */ export function prependSudo(command: string) { if (isSudo()) { return `sudo ${command}` } return command } /** * Execute a command as root if sudo is available. Otherwise executes the command normally without sudo. * * @param program The program to spawn * @param args The command arguments * @param execOptions The options passed to `execa`. * * Defaults to `{ stdio: "inherit" }` */ export function execRoot(program: string, args: string[] = [], execOptions: execa.SyncOptions = { stdio: "inherit" }) { if (isSudo()) { return execa.commandSync(`sudo ${[program, ...args].map((arg) => `'${arg}'`).join(" ")}`, execOptions) } else { return execa.sync(program, args, execOptions) } }