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What do three dots "./..." mean in Go command line invocations?
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Problem
If you run Golang tests on Travis CI, it will download all of your dependencies with three dots:
What does
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
From the command
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.
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.
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Stack Overflow Q#28031603, score: 196
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