```typescript
window.ddClient.execHostCmd(`cliShippedOnHost xxx`).then((cmdResult: any) => {
 console.log(cmdResult);
});
```

> [!WARNING]
>
> It will be removed in a future version. Use [exec](ExtensionCli.md#exec) instead.

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `cmd` | `string` | The command to be executed. |

#### Returns

`Promise`<[`ExecResultV0`](ExecResultV0.md)\>

#### Inherited from

DockerDesktopClientV0.execHostCmd

___

### spawnHostCmd

▸ **spawnHostCmd**(`cmd`, `args`, `callback`): `void`

Invoke an extension binary on your host and get the output stream.

```typescript
window.ddClient.spawnHostCmd(
  `cliShippedOnHost`,
  [`arg1`, `arg2`],
  (data: any, err: any) => {
    console.log(data.stdout, data.stderr);
    // Once the command exits we get the status code
    if (data.code) {
      console.log(data.code);
    }
  }
);
```

> [!WARNING]
>
> It will be removed in a future version. Use [exec](ExtensionCli.md#exec) instead.

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `cmd` | `string` | The command to be executed. |
| `args` | `string`[] | The arguments of the command to execute. |
| `callback` | (`data`: `any`, `error`: `any`) => `void` | The callback function where to listen from the command output data and errors. |

#### Returns

`void`

#### Inherited from

DockerDesktopClientV0.spawnHostCmd

___

### execDockerCmd

▸ **execDockerCmd**(`cmd`, `...args`): `Promise`<[`ExecResultV0`](ExecResultV0.md)\>

You can also directly execute the Docker binary.

```typescript
const output = await window.ddClient.execDockerCmd("info");
```

> [!WARNING]
>
> It will be removed in a future version. Use [exec](DockerCommand.md#exec) instead.

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `cmd` | `string` | The command to execute. |
| `...args` | `string`[] | The arguments of the command to execute. |

#### Returns

`Promise`<[`ExecResultV0`](ExecResultV0.md)\>

The result will contain both the standard output and the standard error of the executed command:
```json
{
  "stderr": "...",
  "stdout": "..."
}
```
For convenience, the command result object also has methods to easily parse it depending on the output format:

- `output.lines(): string[]` splits output lines.
- `output.parseJsonObject(): any` parses a well-formed JSON output.
- `output.parseJsonLines(): any[]` parses each output line as a JSON object.

If the output of the command is too long, or you need to get the output as a stream you can use the
 * spawnDockerCmd function: