'What do three dots "./..." mean in Go command line invocations?
If you run Golang tests on Travis CI, it will download all of your dependencies with three dots:
go get -d -v ./... && go build -v ./...
What does ./... indicate or expand to there? I've done some research but it doesn't seem to be a Unix convention.
Solution 1:[1]
From the command go help packages:
An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, each of which can match any string, including the empty string and strings containing slashes. Such a pattern expands to all package directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the patterns. As a special case, x/... matches x as well as x's subdirectories. For example, net/... expands to net and packages in its subdirectories.
Solution 2:[2]
go [command] ./...
Here ./ tells to start from the current folder, ... tells to go down recursively.
For Example:
go list ...
In any folder lists all the packages, including packages of the standard library first followed by external libraries in your go workspace.
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