Properly passing data on stdin to a command and receiving data from stdout of that command in golang

Question

I have the following program:

package main

import \"bytes\"
import \"io\"
import \"log\"
import \"os\"
import \"os/exec\"
import \"time\"

func main() {
    run         


        

Answer 1

Here is a version of your first code which works. Note the addition of the sync.WaitGroup to make sure you finish with the sending and receiving go routines before closing the command.

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "io"
    "log"
    "os"
    "os/exec"
    "sync"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    runCatFromStdinWorks(populateStdin("aaa\n"))
    runCatFromStdinWorks(populateStdin("bbb\n"))
}

func populateStdin(str string) func(io.WriteCloser) {
    return func(stdin io.WriteCloser) {
        defer stdin.Close()
        io.Copy(stdin, bytes.NewBufferString(str))
    }
}

func runCatFromStdinWorks(populate_stdin_func func(io.WriteCloser)) {
    cmd := exec.Command("cat")
    stdin, err := cmd.StdinPipe()
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }
    stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }
    err = cmd.Start()
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }
    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    wg.Add(2)
    go func() {
        defer wg.Done()
        populate_stdin_func(stdin)
    }()
    go func() {
        defer wg.Done()
        time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
        io.Copy(os.Stdout, stdout)
    }()
    wg.Wait()
    err = cmd.Wait()
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }
}

(This is just another way of saying what @peterSO said though ;-)