natefinch/gorram

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1050 stars · 33 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

gorram is a Go CLI tool that lets you run any exported Go function from the standard library or your GOPATH directly from the command line, like 'go run' for arbitrary functions. It analyzes the function signature, generates a wrapper script, and converts CLI arguments and stdin into function arguments, printing results to stdout.

Use cases

• pretty-print JSON from the command line using encoding/.Indent
• compute a sha256 checksum of a file without writing a Go program
• quickly test or call any stdlib or GOPATH Go function from the shell
• pipe stdin into a Go function that accepts an io.Reader
• format function output with a Go template for scripting

When to choose

• you want to invoke a Go function ad hoc without writing a main package
• you're scripting small utilities on top of Go stdlib functions
• you want a quick REPL-like way to exercise Go code from the shell

When to avoid

• you need to call unexported functions or methods
• you don't have a working Go toolchain installed
• you need a production-grade CLI for a specific task rather than a generic function runner

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages cli go cross-platform go-run function-runner reflection code-generation cli-helpers command-line

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