*Windows support is only experimental for now.
A wrapper around Foundation.Process, inspired by Rust's
std::process::Command. This package makes it easy to call command line
programs and handle their I/O.
You can install this package using the Swift Package Manager, by including it in the dependencies of your package:
let package = Package(
// ...
dependencies: [
// other dependencies...
.package(
url: "https://github.com/Zollerboy1/SwiftCommand.git",
from: "1.2.0"
),
],
// ...
)Using this package is very easy.
Before you start, make sure that you've imported the SwiftCommand module:
import SwiftCommandNow it can be used like this:
let output = try Command.findInPath(withName: "echo")!
.addArgument("Foo")
.waitForOutput()
print(output.stdout)
// Prints 'Foo\n'This blocks the thread until the command terminates. You can use the
async/await API instead, if you want to do other work while waiting for the
command to terminate:
let output = try await Command.findInPath(withName: "echo")!
.addArgument("Foo")
.output
print(output.stdout)
// Prints 'Foo\n'Suppose that you have a file called SomeFile.txt that looks like this:
Foo
Bar
Baz
You can then set stdin and stdout of commands like this:
let catProcess = try Command.findInPath(withName: "cat")!
.setStdin(.read(fromFile: "SomeFile.txt"))
.setStdout(.pipe)
.spawn()
let grepProcess = try Command.findInPath(withName: "grep")!
.addArgument("Ba")
.setStdin(.pipe(from: catProcess.stdout))
.setStdout(.pipe)
.spawn()
for try await line in grepProcess.stdout.lines {
print(line)
}
// Prints 'Bar' and 'Baz'
try catProcess.wait()
try grepProcess.wait()
// Ensure the processes are terminated before exiting the parent processThis is doing in Swift, what you would normally write in a terminal like this:
cat < SomeFile.txt | grep BaIf you don't specify stdin, stdout, or stderr, and also don't capture the output
(using e.g. waitForOutput()), then they will by default inherit the
corresponding handle of the parent process. E.g. the stdout of the following
program is Bar\n:
import SwiftCommand
try Command.findInPath(withName: "echo")!
.addArgument("Bar")
.wait()