How to get the realtime output for a shell command in golang?

Question

I am trying to call shell command with os/exec in golang, that command will take some time, so I would like to retrieve the reatime output and print the processed output (a

Answer 1

check the below, needs enhancements (not recommended to be used as it is) but working :)

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "os/exec"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
)

var duration = 0
var allRes = ""
var lastPer = -1

func durToSec(dur string) (sec int) {
    durAry := strings.Split(dur, ":")
    if len(durAry) != 3 {
        return
    }
    hr, _ := strconv.Atoi(durAry[0])
    sec = hr * (60 * 60)
    min, _ := strconv.Atoi(durAry[1])
    sec += min * (60)
    second, _ := strconv.Atoi(durAry[2])
    sec += second
    return
}
func getRatio(res string) {
    i := strings.Index(res, "Duration")
    if i >= 0 {

        dur := res[i+10:]
        if len(dur) > 8 {
            dur = dur[0:8]

            duration = durToSec(dur)
            fmt.Println("duration:", duration)
            allRes = ""
        }
    }
    if duration == 0 {
        return
    }
    i = strings.Index(res, "time=")
    if i >= 0 {

        time := res[i+5:]
        if len(time) > 8 {
            time = time[0:8]
            sec := durToSec(time)
            per := (sec * 100) / duration
            if lastPer != per {
                lastPer = per
                fmt.Println("Percentage:", per)
            }

            allRes = ""
        }
    }
}

func main() {
    os.Remove("cmd1.mp4")
    cmdName := "ffmpeg -i 1.mp4  -acodec aac -vcodec libx264  cmd1.mp4 2>&1"
    cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", cmdName)
    stdout, _ := cmd.StdoutPipe()
    cmd.Start()
    oneByte := make([]byte, 8)
    for {
        _, err := stdout.Read(oneByte)
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Printf(err.Error())
            break
        }
        allRes += string(oneByte)
        getRatio(allRes)
    }
}