os/exec: exec.Command won't execute hidden files in Linux

[guitmz]

I have been facing a weird problem here and as last resort, I changed the file from being hidden to regular and the exec ran fine. This is the only change I made in the code at all.

Here's an example.

Not working:

cmd := exec.Command("./.file") //notice the file starts with a dot, this will NOT work 
cmd.Start() //execute it

Working:

cmd := exec.Command("./file")  //Works fine!!!
cmd.Start() //execute it

Sorry if this is meant to happen but well, you should be able to exec whatever you want in my opinion.

Thanks

[guitmz]

Yeah my bad, my distro was messed up somehow, restored from a backup and works as it should, no idea what happened.