Starting an External Command or Program

The os package contains the function StartProcess to call or start external OS commands or binary executables; its 1^st argument is the process to be executed, the 2^nd can be used to pass some options or arguments, and the 3^rd is a struct that contains basic info about the OS-environment. It returns a pointer to the started process, or an error if it failed.

The exec package contains the structures and functions to accomplish the same task more easily; most important are exec.Command(name string, arg ...string) and Run(). The function ...