Today I Learned Go Part 1

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This post is mostly my notes from going through a go-tooling-workshop. This set of tutorials I found to be very helpful even though most of it I knew. Its has a good babalnce of explanation and brevity. Here I just wanted to put down some notes on things I had fogotten about or didn't know mostly for my reference.

Advanced go get #

When using go get these are some helpful flags:

• go get -d: down the code, but do not compile anything.
• go get -u: download the latest version even if its already in you GOPATH.
• go get -v: enable verbose mode.

Also, if a url contains more than one package in sub directories of that url, instead of running go get one-by-one you can install all of them in one command like so:

go get github.com/campoy/go-web-workshop/...

Using go list #

go list allows you to obtain information about your workspace and the packages stored in it.

NOTE: in order to list all the packages in the standard library you can simply run go list std.

go list github.com/golang/example/...    # remember that ... means "and everything below"
github.com/golang/example/appengine-hello
github.com/golang/example/gotypes
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/defsuses
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/doc
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/hello
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/hugeparam
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/implements
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/lookup
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/nilfunc
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/pkginfo
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/skeleton
github.com/golang/example/gotypes/typeandvalue
github.com/golang/example/hello
github.com/golang/example/outyet
github.com/golang/example/stringutil
github.com/golang/example/template

Advanced Using go list #

List and count how many .go files are under github.com/olang/example using go list:

go list -f '' github.com/golang/example/...
app.go
weave.go
main.go
main.go
hello.go
main.go
main.go
lookup.go
main.go
main.go
main.go
main.go
hello.go
main.go
reverse.go
main.go

Now to get the count, you only need to pipe the above output to wc -l:

go list -f '' github.com/golang/example/... | wc -l
16

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