How to execute a simple Windows command in Golang?

Question

How to run a simple Windows command?

This command:

exec.Command("del", "c:\\aaa.txt") 

.. outputs this message:

del: executable file not found in %path%

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I got the same error as you. But dystroy is correct: You can't run del or any other command built into cmd because there is no del.exe file (or any other del-executable for that matter).

I got it to work with:

package main  import(     "fmt"     "os/exec" )  func main(){         c := exec.Command("cmd", "/C", "del", "D:\\a.txt")      if err := c.Run(); err != nil {          fmt.Println("Error: ", err)     }    }