package main import "log" import "strings" import "os" import "os/exec" import "io/ioutil" import "errors" // import "bufio" // import "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew" /* import "time" import "runtime" import "runtime/debug" import "runtime/pprof" import "git.wit.org/wit/gui" import "git.wit.org/wit/shell" import "github.com/gobuffalo/packr" */ func runSimpleCommand(s string) { cmd := strings.TrimSpace(s) // this is like 'chomp' in perl cmd = strings.TrimSuffix(cmd, "\n") // this is like 'chomp' in perl cmdArgs := strings.Fields(cmd) runLinuxCommand(cmdArgs) } var geom string = "120x30+500+500" func xterm(cmd string) { var tmp []string var argsXterm = []string{"nohup", "xterm", "-geometry", geom} tmp = append(argsXterm, "-hold", "-e", cmd) log.Println("xterm cmd=", cmd) go runCommand(tmp) } func runCommand(cmdArgs []string) { log.Println("runCommand() START", cmdArgs) process := exec.Command(cmdArgs[0], cmdArgs[1:len(cmdArgs)]...) // process := exec.Command("xterm", "-e", "ping localhost") log.Println("runCommand() process.Start()") process.Start() log.Println("runCommand() process.Wait()") err := process.Wait() lookupError(err) log.Println("runCommand() NEED TO CHECK THE TIME HERE TO SEE IF THIS WORKED") log.Println("runCommand() OTHERWISE INFORM THE USER") log.Println("runCommand() END", cmdArgs) } func lookupError(err error) { var ( ee *exec.ExitError pe *os.PathError ) if errors.As(err, &ee) { log.Println("ran, but non-zero exit code =", ee.ExitCode()) // ran, but non-zero exit code } else if errors.As(err, &pe) { log.Printf("os.PathError = %v", pe) // "no such file ...", "permission denied" etc. } else if err != nil { log.Printf("something really bad happened general err = %v", err) // something really bad happened! if exitError, ok := err.(*exec.ExitError); ok { log.Printf("exitError.ExitCode() is %d\n", exitError.ExitCode()) } } else { log.Println("success! // ran without error (exit code zero)") } } func runLinuxCommand(cmdArgs []string) (string, error) { process := exec.Command(cmdArgs[0], cmdArgs[1:len(cmdArgs)]...) process.Stdin = os.Stdin process.Stderr = os.Stderr stdOut, err := process.StdoutPipe() if err != nil { return "", err } if err := process.Start(); err != nil { return "", err } bytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(stdOut) if err != nil { return "", err } err = process.Wait() lookupError(err) log.Println(string(bytes)) return string(bytes), err }