Add a command to negate the exit code of some other command

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli

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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Description

feat

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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