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shelljs

Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

v0.10.0, 9 May 2025BSD-3-ClauseCommonJSTypes: NoneNode.js utilities
$ npm install shelljs

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
8.5m
-3% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
2
Direct, from package.json
Last release
1 year ago
v0.10.0
GitHub stars
14.4k
756 forks
Open issues / PRs
88 / 22
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
16

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
05m10m15mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 11.4m (3 Mar 2026)Low 4.4m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

8,465,227 downloads last week, 37,596,449 in the last month. The 12-month change of -3% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
048 in total
Latest version
0.10.0, 9 May 20251 year ago
First published
2 Mar 2012
Last push to GitHub
13 Sept 202611 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
88
Open pull requests
22
Commits, last 52 weeks
16
Dependents on npm
18,216

Major versions

  1. v0 first release 0.0.1, 2 Mar 2012

Recent releases

VersionPublished
0.10.09 May 2025
0.9.217 Mar 2025
0.9.18 Mar 2025
0.9.08 Mar 2025
0.8.57 Jan 2022
0.8.425 Apr 2020
0.8.313 Nov 2018
0.8.28 May 2018
0.8.120 Jan 2018
0.8.012 Jan 2018
0.7.87 Jun 2017
0.7.79 Mar 2017
0.7.68 Jan 2017
0.7.527 Oct 2016
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
>=18
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
148 kB
Dependencies (2)
execafast-glob
npm install shelljs
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/shelljs@0.10.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/shelljs@0.10.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/shelljs@0.10.0
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.