How to pass []string to a function that expects a variadic parameter?

Question

In order to don't repeat my self over and over I wanted to create a function that handles running some commands.
func runCommand(name string, arg ...string) error {
    cmd := exec.Command(name, arg)
    if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
        return err
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}

Once I try to run this I get the following error:
cannot use arg (type []string) as type string in argument to exec.Command

I had a look into the implementation of the os.Command and it looks that the function signature is exact what I supply.

Internally a []string should be the same as variadic parameter but for the compiler it seems not.

Is there a way to pass the variadic parameter into the Command?

Aditya Agrawal · Accepted Answer

You expand the []string with another ... cmd := exec.Command(name, arg...) From the language spec on Passing arguments to ... parameters If the final argument is assignable to a slice type []T, it may be passed unchanged as the value for a ...T parameter if the argument is followed by .... In this case no new slice is created. Given the slice s and call s := []string{"James", "Jasmine"} Greeting("goodbye:", s...) within Greeting, who will have the same value as s with the same underlying array.

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