go-fmt(1)

gofmt (reformat) package sources

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Description

GO-FMT

NAME

go-fmt - gofmt (reformat) package sources

SYNOPSIS

go fmt [-n] [-x] [packages]

DESCRIPTION

Fmt runs the command ‘gofmt -l -w’ on the packages named by the import paths. It prints the names of the files that are modified.

For more about gofmt, see ‘go doc cmd/gofmt’.
For more about specifying packages, see go-packages(7).

-n

The -n flag prints commands that would be executed.

-x

The -x flag prints commands as they are executed.

-mod

The -mod flag’s value sets which module download mode to use: readonly or vendor. See ‘go help modules’ for more.

To run gofmt with specific options, run gofmt itself.

SEE ALSO

go-fix(1), go-vet(1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> and is maintained by the Debian Go Compiler Team <team+go-compiler@tracker.debian.org> based on the output of ‘go help fmt’ for the Debian project (and may be used by others).