golang: run default application for a pdf file on windows

Question

I\'d like to open a PDF file in the filesystem from go with the default application. How can I do that? From the command line I just write the filename of the pdf file and the a

Answer 1

exec.Command("rundll32.exe", "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler", "path_to_foo.pdf")

should also handle it.

Note that still the right way to do it is to use a C wrapper around the ShellExecute() API function exported by shell32.dll, and the "w32" library seems to provide this wrapper right away.

Answer 2

You must launch cmd /C start foo.pdf. This will let the start command find the correct executable for you.

cmd := exec.Command("cmd", "/C start path_to_foo.pdf")