Go fmt on a whole source tree

Question

I have a project currently organized something like this:

 ~/code/go          /bin          /pkg          /src              /proj/main.go                   /some_package/package.go                   /some_other_package/some_other_package.go 

Now if I want to use the go fmt tool on my whole project it seems that the only way is to do it separately for each directory in my projects source tree:

go fmt proj go fmt proj/package go fmt proj/some_other_package 

Is there some way to tell the fmt command to run on the whole source tree?

Answer 1

You can use three dots (...) as a wildcard. So for example, the following command will format all github.com packages:

go fmt github.com/... 

This wildcard also works with other go commands like go list, go get and so. There is no need to remember such an ugly find command.