go-shell

Library to write "shelling out" Go code more shell-like, while remaining idiomatic to Go.

Features

Function-wrapper factories for shell commands
Panic on non-zero exits for set -e behavior
Result of Run() is a Stringer for STDOUT, has Error for STDERR
Heavily variadic function API Cmd("rm", "-r", "foo") == Cmd("rm -r", "foo")
Go-native piping Cmd(...).Pipe(...) or inline piping Cmd("... | ...")
Template compatible "last arg" piping Cmd(..., Cmd(..., Cmd(...)))
Optional trace output mode like set +x
Similar variadic functions for paths and path templates

Examples

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/progrium/go-shell"
)

var (
  sh = shell.Run
)

shell.Trace = true // like set +x
shell.Shell = []string{"/bin/bash", "-c"} // defaults to /bin/sh

func main() {
  defer shell.ErrExit()
  sh("echo Foobar > /foobar")
  sh("rm /fobar") // typo raises error
  sh("echo Done!") // never run, program exited
}

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/progrium/go-shell"
)

func main() {
  fmt.Println(shell.Cmd("echo", "foobar").Pipe("wc", "-c").Pipe("awk", "'{print $1}'").Run())
}

import "github.com/progrium/go-shell"

var (
  echo = shell.Cmd("echo").OutputFn()
  copy = shell.Cmd("cp").ErrFn()
  rm = shell.Cmd("rm").ErrFn()
)

func main() {
  err := copy("/foo", "/bar")
  // handle err
  err = rm("/bar")
  // handle err
  out, _ := echo("Done!")
}

License

MIT