The Go playground does not allow running arbitrary external commands. No doubt primarily for security reasons. But also because the playground environment is not a complete virtualized OS. For example, try to execute
exec.Command("/bin/ls", "-la") You'll get a "not implemented on nacl" error. See https://blog.golang.org/playground On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 8:34 PM Xiangdong JI <xiangdong...@arm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Given a command execution like "cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "go", > "run", file)" playground reports the following error: > > child error: exec: "go": executable file not found in $PATH > > > Could it be solved by specifying a full path for 'go', which path shall I > use? Thanks a lot. > > https://play.golang.org/p/6b79TLLCzfP > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/30f33420-47d9-4fe7-8e39-980f8d5370db%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/30f33420-47d9-4fe7-8e39-980f8d5370db%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD8_uGWv2AORkg%2ByPxxr4o%2BhuSoqnP6CxwAhZcTdspB5kg%40mail.gmail.com.