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Theexec package in Go is designed to run external commands. It is similar to theos/exec package, but provides a simpler interface and does not support streaming.

• The main difference betweenexec andos/exec is that the process does not wait for child processes to finish. This is useful for running long-running processes that are expected to run in the background.

out,err:=exec.Command("date").Output()iferr!=nil {log.Fatal(err)}fmt.Printf("The date is %s\n",out)

This example runs thedate command and logs any errors that occur.