Allow piping to stdin with runShellScript

Feature Requests
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Setting Environment Variables is great, but it has it's limitations.

When passing complex data to a script, for instance, escaping becomes cumbersome and difficult. For instance, for a string with a semi-colon ";", there's always some finagling that has to happen in order to make sure that the semi-colon is serialized and then deserialized to prevent things from breaking.

But if we had the ability to use stdin, it would enable us to send more complex data to a target script:

let shellScriptWrapper = {
    script: "/absolute/path/to/my_script.js",
    launchPath: '/bin/bash',
    parameters: '-c',
    stdin: JSON.stringify(someObj)
};

let result = await runShellScript(shellScriptWrapper);

With a script like:

// my_script.js
(async () => {
  let chunks = [];
  for await (let chunk of process.stdin) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  }
  const raw = chunks.join('');
  try {
    const obj = JSON.parse(raw);
    console.log(obj);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Invalid JSON:', err.message);
    process.exit(1);
  }
})();