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Reputation: 795

How to copy binary correcltly

I use the following code which build binary programmatically the binary is build successfully but now I want to copy it via code to go/bin path, and I was able to do it, but it copy the file but not as executable.

what could be wrong ? the source file is executable 

bPath := filepath.FromSlash("./integration/testdata/" + fileName)
cmd := exec.Command("go", "build", "-o", bPath, ".")
cmd.Dir = filepath.FromSlash("../")
err := cmd.Run()
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("binary creation failed: ", err)
}

fmt.Println(os.Getenv("GOPATH"))
dir, _ := os.Getwd()
srcPath := filepath.Join(dir, "testdata", , fileName)
targetPath := filepath.Join(os.Getenv("GOPATH"),"/bin/",fileName)
copy(srcPath, targetPath)

The copy is:

func copy(src string, dst string) error {
    // Read all content of src to data
    data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(src)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    // Write data to dst
    err = ioutil.WriteFile(dst, data, 0644)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    return nil
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 714

Answers (1)

icza
icza

Reputation: 417592

The problem is with the permission bitmask you provide: 0644. It does not include executable permission, which is the lowest bit in each group.

So instead use 0755, and the result file will be executable by everyone:

err = ioutil.WriteFile(dst, data, 0755)

Check out Wikipedia Chmod for the meaning of the bitmask.

The relevant bitmask table:

#    Permission               rwx    Binary
-------------------------------------------
7    read, write and execute  rwx    111
6    read and write           rw-    110
5    read and execute         r-x    101
4    read only                r--    100
3    write and execute        -wx    011
2    write only               -w-    010
1    execute only             --x    001
0    none                     ---    000

Upvotes: 9

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