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 (87)

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

Conflicts

None