Nowadays you can do open_port({spawn_executable, Command}, {args, A1, ..., An}) but there is no convenient wrapper for this in the os module yet. You could take the code for os:cmd/1 and tweak it to use spawn_executable . Check the docs for erlang:open_port/2 for more details.
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