Thanks to KirkMcDonald on the #go-nuts
irc channel, I solved this by assigning the output file to cmd.Stdout
, which means that stdout writes directly to the file. It looks like this:
package main
import (
"os"
"os/exec"
)
func main() {
cmd := exec.Command("echo", "'WHAT THE HECK IS UP'")
// open the out file for writing
outfile, err := os.Create("./out.txt")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer outfile.Close()
cmd.Stdout = outfile
err = cmd.Start(); if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
cmd.Wait()
}