Reading all of stdin on the command-line with Go
If you're writing command-line tools with Go, you're very likely to want to parse all of stdin, from the first byte, up until the End of File character (EOF).
For instance, you may be receiving input from various means:
# piping from a file
go run main.go < file.txt
# piping with a heredoc
go run main.go <<< EOF
Multi-line
heredoc
EOF
# useless use of cat, but example of piping a command
cat file.txt | go run main.go
# writing the text to stdin
go run main.go
example
text
^D
To read this, in its entirety, we can use io.ReadAll like so:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"strings"
)
func main() {
// this does all the work for us!
stdin, err := io.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
str := string(stdin)
fmt.Println(strings.TrimSuffix(str, "\n"))
}
As noted above, this comment from 2018 noting that you stdin doesn't close no longer seems to be the case, at least in the test I performed on go version go1.17.7 linux/amd64.
