Using Unix pipes with Go

📅 Oct 6, 2024 — 🧮 709 words — 🏷️ tech go unix tutorial open-source

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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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