How to embed files into Go binaries

I have some text file that I read from my Go program. I'd like to ship a single executable, without supplying that text file additionally.
How do I embed it into compilation on Windows and Linux?

Use go-bindata. From the README:


This tool converts any file into managable Go source code. Useful for
embedding binary data into a go program. The file data is optionally
gzip compressed before being converted to a raw byte slice.

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