diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index dd890982..1bf2af3f 100755
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -389,15 +389,8 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
                 command: "node build/prod/sitemap.js > build/prod/sitemap.xml"
             },
             generateConfig: {
-                command: [
-                    "echo '\n--- Regenerating config files. ---'",
-                    "mkdir -p src/core/config/modules",
-                    "echo 'export default {};\n' > src/core/config/modules/OpModules.mjs",
-                    "echo '[]\n' > src/core/config/OperationConfig.json",
-                    "node --experimental-modules --no-warnings --no-deprecation src/core/config/scripts/generateOpsIndex.mjs",
-                    "node --experimental-modules --no-warnings --no-deprecation src/core/config/scripts/generateConfig.mjs",
-                    "echo '--- Config scripts finished. ---\n'"
-                ].join(";")
+                command: "node --experimental-modules --no-warnings --no-deprecation src/core/config/scripts/generateDefaults.mjs",
+                stdout: true
             },
             opTests: {
                 command: "node --experimental-modules --no-warnings --no-deprecation tests/operations/index.mjs"
diff --git a/src/core/config/scripts/generateDefaults.mjs b/src/core/config/scripts/generateDefaults.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ace324b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/config/scripts/generateDefaults.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/**
+ * This script automatically generates OperationConfig.json, containing metadata
+ * for each operation in the src/core/operations directory.
+ * It also generates modules in the src/core/config/modules directory to separate
+ * out operations into logical collections.
+ *
+ * @author David B Heise [david@heiseink.com] 
+ * @copyright Crown Copyright 2018
+ * @license Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+/*eslint no-console: ["off"] */
+
+import path from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+import process from "process";
+import childProcess from "child_process"
+
+
+const mkdirSync = function (dirPath) {
+    try {
+        fs.mkdirSync(dirPath)
+    } catch (err) {
+        if (err.code !== 'EEXIST') throw err
+    }
+}
+
+const mkdirpSync = function (dirPath) {
+    const parts = dirPath.split(path.sep)
+    for (let i = 1; i <= parts.length; i++) {
+        mkdirSync(path.join.apply(null, parts.slice(0, i)))
+    }
+}
+
+
+const dir = process.cwd();
+
+//Create the Destination Folder
+mkdirpSync(path.join(dir, "src/core/config/modules"))
+
+//Create the default files
+fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, "src/core/config/modules/OpModules.mjs"), "export default{};\n")
+fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, "src/core/config/OperationConfig.json"), "[]\n")
+
+//Run the generateOpsIndex.mjs file
+childProcess.fork(path.join(dir, "src/core/config/scripts/generateOpsIndex.mjs"), { execArgv: ["--experimental-modules","--no-warnings","--no-deprecation"]})
+
+//Run the generateConfig.mjs file
+childProcess.fork(path.join(dir, "src/core/config/scripts/generateConfig.mjs"), { execArgv: ["--experimental-modules","--no-warnings","--no-deprecation"]})