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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Copying files in Go

Every operating system allows you to copy files because this is a very important and necessary operation. This section will show you how to copy files in Go now that you know how to read files!

There is more than one way to copy a file!

Most programming languages offer more than one way to create a copy of a file and Go is no exception. It is up to the developer to decide which approach to implement.

The there is more than one way to do it rule applies to almost everything implemented in this book, but file copying is the most characteristic example of this rule because you can copy a file by reading it line by line, byte by byte, or all at once! However, this rule does not apply to the way Go likes to...
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