1 // Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package exec_test 6 7 import ( 8 "bytes" 9 "context" 10 "encoding/json" 11 "fmt" 12 "io" 13 "io/ioutil" 14 "log" 15 "os/exec" 16 "strings" 17 "time" 18 ) 19 20 func ExampleLookPath() { 21 path, err := exec.LookPath("fortune") 22 if err != nil { 23 log.Fatal("installing fortune is in your future") 24 } 25 fmt.Printf("fortune is available at %s\n", path) 26 } 27 28 func ExampleCommand() { 29 cmd := exec.Command("tr", "a-z", "A-Z") 30 cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader("some input") 31 var out bytes.Buffer 32 cmd.Stdout = &out 33 err := cmd.Run() 34 if err != nil { 35 log.Fatal(err) 36 } 37 fmt.Printf("in all caps: %q\n", out.String()) 38 } 39 40 func ExampleCmd_Output() { 41 out, err := exec.Command("date").Output() 42 if err != nil { 43 log.Fatal(err) 44 } 45 fmt.Printf("The date is %s\n", out) 46 } 47 48 func ExampleCmd_Start() { 49 cmd := exec.Command("sleep", "5") 50 err := cmd.Start() 51 if err != nil { 52 log.Fatal(err) 53 } 54 log.Printf("Waiting for command to finish...") 55 err = cmd.Wait() 56 log.Printf("Command finished with error: %v", err) 57 } 58 59 func ExampleCmd_StdoutPipe() { 60 cmd := exec.Command("echo", "-n", `{"Name": "Bob", "Age": 32}`) 61 stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe() 62 if err != nil { 63 log.Fatal(err) 64 } 65 if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil { 66 log.Fatal(err) 67 } 68 var person struct { 69 Name string 70 Age int 71 } 72 if err := json.NewDecoder(stdout).Decode(&person); err != nil { 73 log.Fatal(err) 74 } 75 if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil { 76 log.Fatal(err) 77 } 78 fmt.Printf("%s is %d years old\n", person.Name, person.Age) 79 } 80 81 func ExampleCmd_StdinPipe() { 82 cmd := exec.Command("cat") 83 stdin, err := cmd.StdinPipe() 84 if err != nil { 85 log.Fatal(err) 86 } 87 88 go func() { 89 defer stdin.Close() 90 io.WriteString(stdin, "values written to stdin are passed to cmd's standard input") 91 }() 92 93 out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput() 94 if err != nil { 95 log.Fatal(err) 96 } 97 98 fmt.Printf("%s\n", out) 99 } 100 101 func ExampleCmd_StderrPipe() { 102 cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "echo stdout; echo 1>&2 stderr") 103 stderr, err := cmd.StderrPipe() 104 if err != nil { 105 log.Fatal(err) 106 } 107 108 if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil { 109 log.Fatal(err) 110 } 111 112 slurp, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(stderr) 113 fmt.Printf("%s\n", slurp) 114 115 if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil { 116 log.Fatal(err) 117 } 118 } 119 120 func ExampleCmd_CombinedOutput() { 121 cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "echo stdout; echo 1>&2 stderr") 122 stdoutStderr, err := cmd.CombinedOutput() 123 if err != nil { 124 log.Fatal(err) 125 } 126 fmt.Printf("%s\n", stdoutStderr) 127 } 128 129 func ExampleCommandContext() { 130 ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 100*time.Millisecond) 131 defer cancel() 132 133 if err := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "sleep", "5").Run(); err != nil { 134 // This will fail after 100 milliseconds. The 5 second sleep 135 // will be interrupted. 136 } 137 } 138