Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

What’s in This Book

In Chapter 1, ​Your First Command-Line Program in Go​, you’ll take a quick tour through the process of developing a command-line application with Go by building a word counter. You will start with the basic implementation, add some features, and explore testing. You’ll also add command-line flags and build this application for different platforms.

In Chapter 2, ​Interacting with Your Users​, you’ll design and write a command-line tool to manage lists of to-do items in accordance with common input/output standards by applying different techniques. You’ll take input from the standard input (STDIN) stream, parse command-line parameters, and define flags for your tool using the flags package. You’ll use environment variables to ...