bitfield/script

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7030 stars · 367 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Go library that makes it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go using a fluent pipeline API inspired by Unix tools like grep, sed, and jq. It provides composable operations on streams of data such as reading files, filtering lines, counting matches, and running subprocesses.

Use cases

• read a file and count lines in Go
• filter lines matching a pattern like grep
• write sysadmin scripts in Go instead of bash
• pipe stdin through transformations and write to stdout
• concatenate multiple files and filter errors
• replace shell pipelines with type-safe Go code

When to choose

• you want shell-script simplicity with Go's type safety and error handling
• you're writing small sysadmin or automation tools in Go
• you need composable stream operations like grep, head, tail, or wc in Go code

When to avoid

• you need high-performance bulk data processing where pipeline overhead matters
• your task is complex application logic better served by idiomatic Go without shell abstractions
• you're not using Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools file-system http-client parser cli developer-tools files go cross-platform windows shell-scripting pipeline unix-tools sysadmin stream-processing command-line automation linux macos

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