The variadic args worked perfectly. Thanks.
I did not use the archive/tar and compress/gzip approach because that wold
be a lot more complicated than just executing a tar command. Those
packages are oriented towards reading/writing the contents of
archive/compressed files into the program rather than just extracting a
file from a compressed archive.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 10:28:06 AM UTC-6 wagner riffel wrote:
> On Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 6:16 PM CEST, Dean Schulze wrote:
> > I need to execute this tar command
> >
> > *tar xzf dir1/dir2/somefile.tgz --directory=dir1/dir2/*
> >
>
> Did you considered using the packages "archive/tar" and
> "compress/gzip" to achive this?
>
> > *argStr := "xzf dir1/dir2/somefile.tgz --directory=dir1/dir2/"output, err
> > := exec.Command("tar", argStr).Output()*
> >
>
> exec.Command arguments are variadic, each argument is one argv, thus I
> think you meant exec.Command("tar", "xzf", "dir1/dir2/somefile.tgz",
> "--directory=dir1/dir2/")
>
> -w
>
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