Geekeey.Extensions.Process

Process is a .NET library for interacting with external command-line interfaces. It provides a convenient model for launching processes, redirecting input and output streams, awaiting completion, handling cancellation, and more.

Features

• Input and Output redirection: flexible piping model, that allows to redirect the process's streams.
• Immutability: The Command object is immutable, ensuring thread safely and allowing sharing of a base configuration.

Getting Started

Install the NuGet package:

dotnet add package Geekeey.Extensions.Process

You may need to add our NuGet Feed to your nuget.config this can be done by adding the following lines

<packageSources>
	<add key="geekeey" value="https://git.geekeey.de/api/packages/geekeey/nuget/index.json" />
</packageSources>

Configure

The package adds a global using for the functions in the Prelude class when the ImplicitUsings is enabled in the .csproj file. This global using is recommended but can also be removed, by removing the Geekeey.Extensions.Process.Prelude value from the item group <Usings>. For more information about that see the Project.props file inside the project tree.

Usage

public static Task<int> Main()
{
	var stdout = new StringBuilder();
	var cmd = Run("git").WithArguments(["config", "--get", "user.name"]) | stdout;
	await cmd.ExecuteAsync();
	Console.WriteLine(stdout.ToString());
	return 0;
}

public static Task<int> Main()
{
	var cmd = Run("cat").WithArguments(["file.txt"]) | Run("wc");
	await cmd.ExecuteAsync();
	Console.WriteLine(stdout.ToString());
}