Exec a shell command in Go

Question

I\'m looking to execute a shell command in Go and get the resulting output as a string in my program. I saw the Rosetta Code version:

package main
import \"f         


        

Answer 1

I did not get the Rosetta example to work in my Windows Go. Finally I managed to go past the old format of the Subprocess with this command to start outfile in notepad in windows. The wait constant parameter mentioned in one manual did not exist so I just left out Wait as the user will close the program by themself or leave it open to reuse.

p, err := os.StartProcess(`c:\windows\system32\notepad.EXE`,
    []string{`c:\windows\system32\notepad.EXE`, outfile},
    &os.ProcAttr{Env: nil, Dir: "", Files:  []*os.File{os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr}})

You would change the os.Stdout.. to os.Pipe as previous answer

EDIT: I got it finally from godoc os Wait, that Wait has changed to method of and I succeeded to do:

   defer p.Wait(0)

Then I decided finally to put

   defer p.Release()

instead.