package bos

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Basic OS interaction for OCaml

Install 

dune-project
 Dependency

erratique.ch Readme Changelog ISC License Edit opam file Versions (4)

Authors

  1. T
    The bos programmers

Maintainers

  1. Daniel Bünzli

Sources

bos-0.3.0.tbz
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Description

Bos provides support for basic and robust interaction with the operating system in OCaml. It has functions to access the process environment, parse command line arguments, interact with the file system and run command line programs.

Bos works equally well on POSIX and Windows operating systems.

Bos depends on Rresult, Astring, Fmt, Fpath and Logs and the OCaml Unix library. It is distributed under the ISC license.

Home page: http://erratique.ch/software/bos
Contact: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzl i@erratique.ch>

Tags

os system cli command file path log unix org:erratique

Published: 23 Apr 2026

README

Bos — Basic OS interaction for OCaml

Bos provides support for basic and robust interaction with the operating system in OCaml. It has functions to access the process environment, parse command line arguments, interact with the file system and run command line programs.

Bos works equally well on POSIX and Windows operating systems.

Bos depends on Rresult, Astring, Fmt, Fpath and Logs and the OCaml Unix library. It is distributed under the ISC license.

Home page: http://erratique.ch/software/bos Contact: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzl i@erratique.ch>

Installation

Bos can be installed with opam:

opam install bos

If you don't use opam consult the opam file for build instructions.

Documentation

The documentation and API reference is automatically generated by from the interfaces. It can be consulted online or via odig doc bos.

Dependencies (10)

  1. logs
  2. fmt >= "0.8.10"
  3. fpath
  4. astring
  5. rresult >= "0.7.0"
  6. base-unix
  7. topkg build & >= "1.1.0"
  8. ocamlbuild build
  9. ocamlfind build
  10. ocaml >= "4.14.0"

Dev Dependencies (1)

  1. mtime with-test

Used by (88)

  1. ahrocksdb
  2. albatross
  3. arp >= "4.0.0"
  4. base64 >= "2.1.2"
  5. bistro
  6. builder
  7. builder-web
  8. bun
  9. bytepdf
  10. ca-certs
  11. ca-certs-nss
  12. camlp5 >= "8.02.01"
  13. camlp5-buildscripts >= "0.07"
  14. carton < "1.0.0"
  15. carton-lwt < "1.0.0"
  16. ccbg
  17. chamelon-unix
  18. checkseum = "0.2.0" | = "0.3.0"
  19. coin < "0.1.2"
  20. current
  21. current-albatross-deployer
  22. current_docker
  23. current_git
  24. current_web
  25. decompress >= "0.9.0" & < "1.0.0" | >= "1.5.2"
  26. diskuvbox
  27. dkml-install-installer
  28. dkml-install-runner
  29. dns-cli
  30. dockerfile-cmd
  31. docteur
  32. duff < "0.3"
  33. dune-release
  34. functoria
  35. geojson
  36. git-kv < "0.1.3"
  37. git-unix >= "3.2.0"
  38. gotd
  39. http-lwt-client
  40. jekyll-format
  41. letsencrypt-app
  42. MlFront_Cache < "2.4.2.169"
  43. MlFront_Cli < "2.3.1"
  44. MlFront_Codept
  45. MlFront_Tools
  46. mirage >= "4.0.0"
  47. ocaml-print-intf >= "1.1.0"
  48. ocb-stubblr < "0.0.2"
  49. odep
  50. odoc >= "2.1.1"
  51. odoc-driver
  52. opam-check-npm-deps
  53. opam-ci
  54. opam-dune-lint
  55. opam-grep >= "0.2.0"
  56. opam-repomin
  57. owi
  58. pa_ppx
  59. pa_ppx_ag
  60. pa_ppx_hashcons
  61. pa_ppx_migrate
  62. pa_ppx_migrate_ocaml_parsetree
  63. pa_ppx_q_ast
  64. pa_ppx_unique
  65. passage >= "0.1.8"
  66. ppx_deriving_yaml < "0.2.2"
  67. prelude < "0.5"
  68. queenshead
  69. quickterface
  70. rosetta < "0.3.0"
  71. scfg >= "0.4"
  72. sihl >= "0.6.0~rc1"
  73. slipshow
  74. smtml >= "0.7.0" & < "0.20.0" | >= "0.26.0"
  75. stone >= "0.6"
  76. swhid >= "0.2"
  77. swhid_compute
  78. topkg-care
  79. topojson
  80. topojsone
  81. um-abt
  82. uring < "0.2"
  83. uuuu < "0.2.0"
  84. vif >= "0.0.1~beta3"
  85. waylaunch >= "0.2.0"
  86. webbrowser
  87. yaml < "3.0.1" | >= "3.2.0"
  88. yaml-sexp < "3.0.1" | >= "3.2.0"

Conflicts

None