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 (89)

  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. digestif >= "1.3.1"
  27. diskuvbox
  28. dkml-install-installer
  29. dkml-install-runner
  30. dns-cli
  31. dockerfile-cmd
  32. docteur
  33. duff < "0.3"
  34. dune-release
  35. functoria
  36. geojson
  37. git-kv < "0.1.3"
  38. git-unix >= "3.2.0"
  39. gotd
  40. http-lwt-client
  41. jekyll-format
  42. letsencrypt-app
  43. MlFront_Cache < "2.4.2.169"
  44. MlFront_Cli < "2.3.1"
  45. MlFront_Codept
  46. MlFront_Tools
  47. mirage >= "4.0.0"
  48. ocaml-print-intf >= "1.1.0"
  49. ocb-stubblr < "0.0.2"
  50. odep
  51. odoc >= "2.1.1"
  52. odoc-driver
  53. opam-check-npm-deps
  54. opam-ci
  55. opam-dune-lint
  56. opam-grep >= "0.2.0"
  57. opam-repomin
  58. owi
  59. pa_ppx
  60. pa_ppx_ag
  61. pa_ppx_hashcons
  62. pa_ppx_migrate
  63. pa_ppx_migrate_ocaml_parsetree
  64. pa_ppx_q_ast
  65. pa_ppx_unique
  66. passage >= "0.1.8"
  67. ppx_deriving_yaml < "0.2.2"
  68. prelude < "0.5"
  69. queenshead
  70. quickterface
  71. rosetta < "0.3.0"
  72. scfg >= "0.4"
  73. sihl >= "0.6.0~rc1"
  74. slipshow
  75. smtml >= "0.7.0" & < "0.20.0" | >= "0.26.0"
  76. stone >= "0.6"
  77. swhid >= "0.2"
  78. swhid_compute
  79. topkg-care
  80. topojson
  81. topojsone
  82. um-abt
  83. uring < "0.2"
  84. uuuu < "0.2.0"
  85. vif >= "0.0.1~beta3"
  86. waylaunch >= "0.2.0"
  87. webbrowser
  88. yaml < "3.0.1" | >= "3.2.0"
  89. yaml-sexp < "3.0.1" | >= "3.2.0"

Conflicts

None