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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go
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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

by Ricardo Gerardi
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
11h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Logging Deleted Files

Command-line tools can be executed interactively by a user, but they are often used as part of a larger script that coordinates several other tasks to automate a process. In both cases, it’s a good idea to provide constant feedback so the user or script knows that the tool is doing some work and it hasn’t hung unexpectedly.

In general, you use STDOUT to provide feedback to the user onscreen. For scripts or tools that are executed in the background, such as a batch job, it’s useful to provide feedback in log files so the user can verify them later.

Go’s standard library provides the log package to facilitate logging information. By default, it will log information to STDERR, but you can configure it to log to a file instead. ...

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