I've just completed another O'Caml package of general interest: Shell. It
contains everything needed to start commands which are connected by pipelines.
A few examples:

open Shell;;
call [ cmd "ls" [ "/dir1"; "/dir2" ]];;
  (* <=> ls /dir1 /dir2 *)

call [ cmd "find" [ "/dir" ]; cmd "grep" [ "something" ] ];;
  (* <=> find /dir | grep something *)

let s = "d\na\nc\nb\n" in
let b = Buffer.create 20 in
call ~stdin:(from_string s) ~stdout:(to_buffer b) [ cmd "sort" ];;
  (* <=> b=`sort <<_EOF_
         $s
         _EOF_`*)

For more information, visit the documentation page:

http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/shell/

Gerd
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