Using Unix pipes with Go
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Go has made it easy to work with Unix operations, it comes with the platform-independent built-in package os
to interface with the operating system.
They offer nice features such as os.Stdin
and os.Stdout
, wrappers of type os.File
around the OS’s common standard streams.
The os/exec
package is also great. It allows you to run Unix-tools from within your Go application.
Package exec runs external commands. It wraps os.StartProcess to make it easier to remap stdin and stdout, connect I/O with pipes, and do other adjustments.
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