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Go Language Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet lists many uses of the go command and important packages in the Go standard library. The go command can perform tasks like building, cleaning, running tests and more. Important standard library packages include bufio, bytes, compress, errors, flag, fmt, html/template, io, log, math, net, os, path/filepath, reflect, regexp, runtime, strconv, and more for tasks like I/O, networking, mathematics, reflection, and more.

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Go Language Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet lists many uses of the go command and important packages in the Go standard library. The go command can perform tasks like building, cleaning, running tests and more. Important standard library packages include bufio, bytes, compress, errors, flag, fmt, html/template, io, log, math, net, os, path/filepath, reflect, regexp, runtime, strconv, and more for tasks like I/O, networking, mathematics, reflection, and more.

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Opensource.

com: Go cheat sheet BY MIHALIS TSOUKALOS

Of the many things the go executable can do, most people know only go run and go build. And, of the many
packages in the standard Go library, most people know only the fmt package. This cheat sheet will list many
uses of the go executable and the most important packages in the Go standard library.

The go command
The go command can do many things, including:
• go bug: creates a bug report • go list: lists packages or modules; executing go list
• go build: compiles the packages named by the import without any command line arguments returns the name
paths, along with their dependencies, without installing of the current directory’s import path
the results • go mod: permits working with modules (go mod first
• go clean: removes object files from package source appeared in Go 1.11)
directories • go run: compiles and runs a Go package with a main()
• go doc: provides Go’s documentation function

• go env: returns information about the Go environment • go test: enables users to execute test packages and see
their results
• go fix: updates packages to use new APIs
• go tool: runs a specific go tool, including: addr2line, api,
• go fmt: reformats Go package files; can be also called asm, buildid, cgo, compile, cover, dist, doc, fix, link,
as gofmt nm, objdump, pack, pprof, test2json, trace, and vet
• go install: compiles and installs the packages given as • go version: returns the current version of Go
command line arguments
• go help: provides help about a topic or a command

Go packages
The Go standard library is very rich and includes many handy packages including:
• bufio: implements buffered I/O •m
 ath/rand: contains functions for producing pseudo-
• bytes: contains functions for working with byte slices random number generators
• compress: contains Go packages (bzip2, flate, gzip, •n
 et: contains portable functions for network I/O
lzw, and zlib) for writing and reading compressed files •n
 et/http: contains functions for creating web servers
• errors: contains functions for working with errors and and clients
the error data type •n
 et/http/pprof: offers a high-level package for profiling
• flag: does the dirty work of parsing command line web applications written in Go (and supplements
arguments and options the low-level runtime/pprof function available in the
standard Go package)
• fmt: contains functions for implementing formatted I/O,
similar to the printf(3) and scanf(3) C functions •n
 et/url: contains functions for parsing URLs

• html/template: contains functions for working with •o


 s: contains portable functions for working with the
templates that create HTML output operating system
• io: contains basic interfaces to primitives related to I/O •o
 s/signal: contains functions for working with signals

• io/ioutil: contains utility functions related to I/O •p


 ath/filepath: contains functions for working with
filename paths
• log: contains the implementation of a logging package
• r eflect: contains functions for runtime reflection
• log/syslog: contains functions for interacting with the
system log service • r egexp: contains functions that implement regular
expression (regex) search
• math: contains mathematical functions and constants
• r untime: contains functions for interacting with Go’s
• math/big: contains functions for working with numbers runtime system
with arbitrary precision
• r untime/pprof: saves runtime profiling data that will be
• math/cmplx: contains mathematical functions and processed by the pprof visualization tool
constants related to complex numbers
• r untime/trace: creates traces for the Go execution tracer
•s
 trconv: converts from strings to other basic data types
and vice versa

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