creack/pty

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library providing an interface to Unix pseudo-terminals (PTYs). It lets Go programs start commands like exec.Command attached to a PTY, enabling interactive terminal emulation and shell embedding.

Use cases

• run a shell command attached to a pseudo-terminal in Go
• embed an interactive bash session in a Go application
• capture output of programs that require a TTY
• build a terminal emulator or SSH-like tool in Go
• resize and manage PTY file descriptors from Go
• test CLI tools that behave differently with a TTY

When to choose

• you need to run or automate interactive terminal programs from Go
• you're building terminal multiplexers, SSH servers, or test harnesses in Go
• you want a small, stable, widely-adopted Go PTY library

When to avoid

• you need Windows PTY/conpty support as a first-class feature
• you're not working in Go
• you only need simple non-interactive command execution without a TTY

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools cli concurrency developer-tools operating-systems bsd go cross-platform pty pseudo-terminal tty terminal process-execution unix command-line linux macos

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