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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

Programming a Unix shell in Go

This section will briefly and naively present Go code that can be used as the foundation for the development of a Unix shell. Apart from the exit command, the only other command that the program can recognize is the version command that just prints the version of the program. All other user input will be echoed on the screen.

The Go code of UNIXshell.go will be presented in three parts. However, before that I will present to you the first version of the shell, which mainly contains comments in order to better understand how I usually start the implementation of a relatively challenging program:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "fmt" 
) 
 
func main() { 
 
   // Present prompt 
 
   // Read a line 
 
   // Get the first word of the line 
 
   // If it is a built-in shell command, execute the command 
 
   // otherwise, echo the command 
 
}...
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