HowToDo

HowoToDo is Go port of howdoi

Abstract

Can you come up with a flawless tar command in a second? How about curl with some gibberish headers? Do you know how to write a complete ps, rsync, ssh, and sftp with all the command line flags you need? Well, now you know HowToDo, the instant stackoverflow via command line!

You don't open up a browser, type www.stackoverflow.com, and search tar flags. Instead, simply run howtodo tar flags on your command line and there you go!

Requirements

• Go ~1.11.0
• Recommended OS as Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04

Getting Started

1. Install Go compiler at https://golang.org/dl/
2. Check out the installation is completed

   $ go version

   go1.11.1 linux/amd64

3. Make a directory for Go projects

   $ mkdir -p $HOME/go

4. Set up GOPATH to your Go project directory

   $ export GOPATH="$HOME/go"

5. Get the source code

   $ go get github.com/TipsyPixie/howtodo

6. Compile the code

   $ go install github.com/TipsyPixie/howtodo

7. Ask em' anything!

   $ $GOPATH/bin/howtodo go handle exception

   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25025467/catching-panics-in-golang
   
   func main() {
       if len(os.Args) != 2 {
            fmt.Printf("usage: %s [filename]\n", os.Args[0])
            os.Exit(1)
       }
       file, err := os.Open(os.Args[1])
       if err != nil {
           log.Fatal(err)
       }
       fmt.Printf("%s", file)
   }
   ...

Usage

$ howtodo -h

Usage of howtodo:
  -a    Show full content of answer
  -l    Show only link to answer
  -v    Show version