How to Pause a Go Program until enter key is pressed

Sometimes there is a need to pause a go program until a key is pressed. Eg. One would only want a go program to exit at the end only on the press of Enter key.

Below program will print the increasing and will stop as soon as you press the key is pressed. Try it out.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    go counter()
    fmt.Println("Press the Enter Key to stop anytime")
    fmt.Scanln()
}

func counter() {
    i := 0
    for {
        fmt.Println(i)
        time.Sleep(time.Second * 1)
        i++
    }
}