Hi guys its almost 3AM here in London and I am losing this fight. I am trying to dump a mysql database into a sql file. It works fine from the command line but not when I try to do the same from Go (using the os/exec
library). I have tried almost everything my stupid head could come up with... It works fine with echo command, but it completely ignores mysqldump. Could you please point me in the right direction?
package main
import (
"os/exec"
"log"
"bufio"
"os"
"io"
)
func main() {
// This Doesn't
// cmd := exec.Command("mysqldump", "-P3306 -hhost -uuser -ppassword database_name")
// This Works
cmd := exec.Command("echo", "Hello World bla bla")
stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
outfile, err := os.Create("./out.sql")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer outfile.Close()
// start the command after having set up the pipe
if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
// read command's stdout line by line
in := bufio.NewWriter(outfile)
defer in.Flush()
io.Copy(outfile, stdout)
}