Execute shell commands in F#

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#!/usr/bin/env -S dotnet fsi

open System
open System.Diagnostics
open System.Threading.Tasks

type CommandResult = { 
  ExitCode: int; 
  StandardOutput: string;
  StandardError: string 
}

let executeCommand executable args =
  async {
    let startInfo = ProcessStartInfo()
    startInfo.FileName <- executable
    for a in args do
      startInfo.ArgumentList.Add(a)
    startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput <- true
    startInfo.RedirectStandardError <- true
    startInfo.UseShellExecute <- false
    startInfo.CreateNoWindow <- true
    use p = new Process()
    p.StartInfo <- startInfo
    p.Start() |> ignore

    let outTask = Task.WhenAll([|
      p.StandardOutput.ReadToEndAsync();
      p.StandardError.ReadToEndAsync()
    |])

    do! p.WaitForExitAsync() |> Async.AwaitTask
    let! out = outTask |> Async.AwaitTask
    return {
      ExitCode = p.ExitCode;
      StandardOutput = out.[0];
      StandardError = out.[1]
    }
  }

let executeShellCommand command =
  executeCommand "/usr/bin/env" [ "-S"; "bash"; "-c"; command ]

// Invocation sample
let r = executeShellCommand "ls -alh" |> Async.RunSynchronously
if r.ExitCode = 0 then
  printfn "%s" r.StandardOutput
else
  eprintfn "%s" r.StandardError
  Environment.Exit(r.ExitCode)

If you create the file test.fsi with the code above, under Linux you can make it executable:

# Make it executable
chmod +x ./test.fsi

# Execute it
./test.fsi

Also, see: Execute Shell Commands in Java/Scala/Kotlin.

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