Running shell (bash) commands

snippets.cs

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
    public static class ShellHelper
    {
        public static string Bash(this string cmd)
        {
            var escapedArgs = cmd.Replace("\"", "\\\"");
            
            var process = new Process()
            {
                StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
                {
                    FileName = "/bin/bash",
                    Arguments = $"-c \"{escapedArgs}\"",
                    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                    UseShellExecute = false,
                    CreateNoWindow = true,
                }
            };
            process.Start();
            string result = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
            process.WaitForExit();
            return result;
        }
    }

// It’s an extension method, so after importing the namespace (if different), you can use it like this:

// var output = "ps aux".Bash();
// output will contain the STDOUT of the result. Currently STDERR is not captured, but the above could easily be modified to do just that by changing the // // property RedirectStandardOutput and reading process.StandardError.