The single most important package that allows you to manipulate files and directories as entities is the os package, which we will use extensively in this chapter. If you consider files as boxes with contents, the os package allows you to move them, put them into the wastebasket, change their names, visit them, and decide which ones you want to use, whereas the io package, which will be presented in the next chapter, allows you to manipulate the contents of a box without worrying too much about the box itself!
The flag package, which you will see in a while, lets you define and process your own flags and manipulate the command-line arguments of a Go program.
The filepath package is extremely handy as it includes the filepath.Walk() function that allows you to traverse entire directory structures in an easy way.
