I'm a fan of Shelljs. I used it to translate shell scripts to run on any platform that supports Node[1]. I particularly like how the translated version is essentially a more readable version of the original shell script[2].

[1] https://github.com/Kinto/kinto-http.js/blob/master/bin/dist-...

[2] https://github.com/Kinto/kinto-http.js/blame/6a4ba42ba13a91a...