go-bindata(8)

✨ NAME ✨

go-bindata — bestie, this thing embeds data right into your Go program 💖 (and yes, it's a System Manager's Manual page, very official, very demure)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

go-bindata [options] input [input ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you've got files. random files. binary files, even. and you want them inside your Go program. go-bindata literally converts any file into manageable Go source code, no cap. it's giving "embed binary data into a Go program" main character energy. and as a lil bonus, the file data is optionally gzip compressed before it gets turned into a raw byte slice 🎀

input is an input directory containing the assets you wanna incorporate. and if you suffix it with /... it will be searched recursively — the way that just works, obsessed 🫶

the options are as follows, bestie, read them all, don't skip:

• -debug — do not embed the assets, but still provide the embedding API. contents will still be loaded from disk. lowkey the "trust me bro it's temporary" mode 💅
• -nocompress — assets will not be GZIP compressed when this flag is specified. so like, the compression? cancelled 🙈
• -nomemcopy — use a .rodata hack to get rid of unnecessary memcopies. refer to the documentation to see what implications this carries — fr fr, go read it, it's important ✨
• -pkg package — package name to use in the generated code. name your baby 🍼
• -prefix prefix — optional path prefix to strip off asset names. bye bye, prefix 👋
• -o — name of the output file to be generated. this is where the magic lands 💖
• -tags tags — optional set of build tags to include. accessorize, bestie 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the go-bindata program was written by Jim Teeuwen. iconic behavior, we stan 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came straight out of the Debian manual, dated January 25, 2014, filed under go-bindata(8) — so when you're out here embedding assets, just remember who told you 🧚💅 ⭐