Tyrrrz/CliWrap

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4997 stars · 284 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CliWrap is a .NET library for interacting with command-line interfaces, providing a fluent, immutable abstraction over System.Diagnostics.Process. It supports launching processes, piping stdin/stdout/stderr, asynchronous execution, and graceful cancellation.

Use cases

• run external commands from C# code
• pipe stdout and stderr between processes
• execute shell commands asynchronously with cancellation
• capture output of a CLI tool in .NET
• avoid deadlocks when redirecting process streams
• send input to a process's stdin programmatically
• wrap command-line tools in a .NET application

When to choose

• you're on .NET and need to spawn or script external processes
• you need robust piping, cancellation, and deadlock-free stream handling
• you want a fluent, immutable API instead of raw System.Diagnostics.Process

When to avoid

• you need to run shell scripts as a full shell environment rather than individual commands
• you're not on a .NET platform
• you need remote or containerized command execution

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools cli concurrency error-handling developer-tools cross-platform dotnet windows cross-platform process-management piping stdin-stdout async cancellation fluent-api nuget command-line automation linux macos

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