GO-ENV(1)

✨ NAME ✨

go-env — print Go environment information 🫶

(it's the go env command, bestie, and yes she's iconic — this page lives in the Go programming tools and commands manual, section 1 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

go env [-json] [-changed] [-u] [-w] [var ...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Env prints Go environment information. That's the whole vibe. ✨

By default env prints information as a shell script — and on Windows, a batch file, because Windows has to be different, it's giving main character energy on a platform nobody asked for 🙈

But okay so — if you give it one or more variable names as arguments? Then env prints the value of each named variable on its own line. Clean. Simple. Slay. 💅

Now the flags, bestie, listen up:

• -json — prints the environment in JSON format instead of as a shell script 🌈 (yes, for the people who want to jq it later, iykyk)
• -u — this one requires one or more arguments and unsets the default setting for the named environment variables, if one has been set with go env -w. No argument, no unset, periodt. 💀
• -w — also requires one or more arguments, but these have to be in the form NAME=VALUE, and it changes the default settings of the named environment variables to the given values. Like a little glow-up for your defaults 🔥
• -changed — prints only those settings whose effective value differs from the default value that would be obtained in an empty environment with no prior uses of the -w flag 🦋 (i.e. only the stuff you actually messed with, obsessed)

For more about environment variables, see go help environment. Not me telling you there's a whole other manual for this — go read it fr fr 📖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was created using help2man and afterwards updating the output. It is maintained by the Debian Go Compiler Team <team+go-compiler@tracker.debian.org> for the Debian project (and may be used by others). Shoutout to the team, they really carried this 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — written, checked, and factually untouched 💖 this was Go 1.27, dated August 2026, and it's giving GO-ENV(1) in that good good Go programming tools and commands energy. bye, go run something iconic ✨🧚