go shell script hack

There is a shell script hack that can be used with go to make go compile and execute the source code of a .go file, as if it were a shell script.

All credit goes to this post, https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang

Please never do this in production!

Example _

Save this to script.go:

/*usr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit; */
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello world")
}

Then just run it:

chmod +x ./script.go
./script.go