Simple String-based process commands.

Simple wrappers over System.Process (readProcess, readProcessWithExitCode, rawSystem, and createProcess). The idea is to provide some common idioms for calling out to commands from programs. For more advanced shell-scripting or streaming use turtle, shelly, shake, etc.

simple-cmd

Some simple String wrappers of readProcess, readProcessWithExitCode, rawSystem from the Haskell process library.

Usage

import SimpleCmd

cmd_ :: String -> [String] -> IO ()

outputs to stdout. For example

cmd_ "echo" ["Hello"]
cmd_ "git" ["clone", url]

This can shortened to git_ "clone" [url].

cmd :: String -> [String] -> IO String

returns stdout as a String. eg

date <- cmd "date" []

There are also cmdBool, cmdMaybe, cmdList, shell, and others.

Simple pipes are also supported:

pipe_ ("echo",["hello"]) ("grep",["ello"])

pipeBool returns True if both commands succeed.

Other examples:

gitBranch :: IO String
grep_ pat file :: IO Bool
sudo_ c args :: IO ()
timeIO :: IO a -> IO a

See the library documentation for more details.