Support a -c option in the pnpm dlx command

[steveluscher]

pnpm version: 7.17.0

Code to reproduce the issue:

pnpx --package lolcatjs --package cowsay -c \
  'echo "$npm_package_name@$npm_package_version" | cowsay | lolcatjs'

Expected behavior:

Should install packages and call command.

Actual behavior:

$ pnpx -p lolcatjs -p cowsay -c \
>            'echo "$npm_package_name@$npm_package_version" | cowsay | lolcatjs'
/home/.local/share/pnpm/store/v3/tmp/dlx-1174922:
 ERR_PNPM_FETCH_404  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/-p: Not Found - 404

This error happened while installing a direct dependency of /home/.local/share/pnpm/store/v3/tmp/dlx-1174922

-p is not in the npm registry, or you have no permission to fetch it.

An authorization header was used: Bearer npm_[hidden]

Additional information:

• node -v prints: v16.18.1
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: Linux

[steveluscher]

Notably, npx works using these same options.

[zkochan]

You can use the --package option with pnpm dlx:

 pnpm --package cowsay --package lolcatjs dlx cowsay hi

But -c is not supported currently.

[steveluscher]

Yeah! That's basically what's at issue here. Would you like me to change the title of this issue to ‘implement -c option in pnpx for parity with npx’?

[await-ovo]

should we add the -shell-mode(shorthands: -c) option to pnpm dlx ?, just like pnpm exec, This should do the same thing as npm --call:

pd --package cowsay --package lolcatjs -c dlx 'echo "hi" | cowsay | lolcatjs'

If this is possible, I would be happy to send a PR :)