Go docs at the command line

Go has plentiful documentation online, but sometimes using a search engine to find the right thing in go can be tough. Go has docs at the command line though.

You can go doc <name-of-package>

> go doc io/ioutil
package ioutil // import "io/ioutil"

Package ioutil implements some I/O utility functions.

var Discard io.Writer = devNull(0)
func NopCloser(r io.Reader) io.ReadCloser
func ReadAll(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error)
func ReadDir(dirname string) ([]os.FileInfo, error)
func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error)
func TempDir(dir, prefix string) (name string, err error)
func TempFile(dir, prefix string) (f *os.File, err error)
func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error

Or, you can go doc <function> if the function is fully qualified with the package name.

> go doc io/ioutil.WriteFile
func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error
    WriteFile writes data to a file named by filename. If the file does not
    exist, WriteFile creates it with permissions perm; otherwise WriteFile
    truncates it before writing.

go doc ioutil.WriteFile will also work.

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