Proc.Fs 0.8.1

Proc.Fs

F# bindings for Proc.

Proc is a library that turns System.Diagnostics.Process into a stream based IObservable capable of capturing a process's true output while still emitting line based events.

The library ships with two computation expression builders:

Shell

Under development but this allows you to easily chain several process invocations where execution will stop if any process yields an exit_code other than 0

let _ = shell {
    exec "dotnet" "--version"
    exec "uname"
}

Exec

A CE to make it REAL easy to execute processes.

//executes dotnet --help
exec { run "dotnet" "--help" }

//supports lists as args too
exec { run "dotnet" ["--help"] }

If you want more info about the invocation you can use either exit_code_of or output_of for the quick one liners.

let exitCode = exec { exit_code_of "dotnet" "--help" }
let output = exec { output_of "dotnet" "--help" }

output will hold both the exit code and the console output

If you need more control on how the process is started you can supply the following options.

exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    env Map[("key", "value")]
    workingDirectory "."
    send_control_c false
    timeout (TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))
    thread_wrap false
    filter_output (fun l -> l.Line.Contains "clean")
    validExitCode (fun i -> i <> 0)
    run
}

run will kick off the invocation of the process.

However there are other ways to kick this off too.

exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    run_args ["restore"; "--help"]
}

Shortcut to supply arguments AND run

let linesContainingClean = exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    filter (fun l -> l.Line.Contains "clean")
}

run the process returning only the console out matching the filter if you want to actually filter what gets written to the console use filter_output.

let dotnetHelpExitCode = exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    exit_code
}

returns just the exit code

let helpOutput = exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    output
}

returns the exit code and the full console output.

let process = exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    wait_until (fun l -> l.Line.Contains "clean")
}

returns an already running process but only after it confirms a line was printed

let process = exec {
    binary "dotnet"
    arguments "--help"
    wait_until_and_disconnect (fun l -> l.Line.Contains "clean")
}

returns an already running process but only after it confirms a line was printed. This version will stop the yielding standard/out lines which may utilize memory consumption which is no longer needed.