gosh

This allows you to write lines of Go code and have them run for you in a framework that provides the main() func and any necessary boilerplate code for some common requirements. The resulting program can be preserved for subsequent editing.

You can run the code in a loop that will read lines from the standard input or from a list of files and, optionally, split each line into fields.

Alternatively you can quickly generate a simple webserver.

It's faster than opening an editor and writing a Go program from scratch especially if there are only a few lines of non-boilerplate code. You can also save the program that it generates and edit that if the few lines become many lines. The workflow would be that you use this to make the first few iterations of the command and if that is sufficient then just stop. If you need to do more then save the file and edit it just like a regular Go program.

Parameters

This uses the param package and so it has access to the help parameters which give a comprehensive message describing the usage of the program and the parameters you can give. The -help parameter on its own will print the standard parameters that the program can accept but you can also give parameters to show both more or less help, in more or less detail. Other standard parameters allow you to explore where parameters have been set and where they can be set. The description of the -help parameter is a good place to start to explore the help available.

The intention of the param package is to provide complete documentation for the program from the command line.

Version parameters

This offers version-querying parameters that allow the user to discover the program version.

Installation

To install gosh you should run the following command:

go install github.com/nickwells/utilities/gosh@latest

This will build gosh and install it into your GOPATH bin directory (by default $HOME/go/bin).

You should then check the installation. Run the following command:

gosh -pre-check

This will check that various tools that gosh uses are installed and will give advice on how to install them if they are missing. It will also check that the standard snippets have been installed and, again, it will give advice on how to install them if not.

Setup

The first thing you'll want to do is to glance at the manual. The gosh command has built-in documentation; just call it with the -help parameter (or the -help-full parameter for the complete manual).

You don't need to do anything else to use; gosh is a single self-contained binary but if you use zsh and want to set up parameter completion, gosh can do this; see the help message for the appropriate parameters.

Similarly, you might want to set up the default snippets; see the section below for details.

Snippets

You can insert the contents of files into your script. These files are called snippets and can be kept in standard directories where you don't need to give the whole pathname.

There are some sample snippets in the _snippets directory which can be found in the repository github.com/nickwells/utilities under the gosh.snippet subdirectory.

The recommended way to install these standard snippets is to use the gosh.snippet command. Alternatively, you can copy them from the source code into a snippets directory with the following command (on Linux):

cp -r --suffix=.orig --backup ./_snippets/* <your-snippets-dir>

Choose one of the available snippets directories to replace the placeholder <your-snippets-dir> above. These directories can be listed by calling gosh with the -snippet-list-dir parameter.

If you aleady have snippets in your snippets directories the cp command given above will preserve any that have a clash of names with those given in the _snippets directory and you can use the findCmpRm command to examine them and tidy up.

Printing

Printing is a common requirement of a script and so gosh offers some parameters to make it easier to add print statements to your script. The following two scripts are equivalent:

gosh -e 'fmt.Print("Hello, World!")'

and

gosh -p '"Hello, World!"'

There are several variants, -pln uses fmt.Println and -pf uses fmt.Printf. There are also variants allowing you to print in different sections of the script, see the help pages for details.

Examples

For examples see here

Notes

For additional notes see here

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