golang gofmt package rewrite wildcard

Question

I'm trying to do a gofmt rewrite of all packages that start with a certain prefix. Something like:

gofmt -r 'github.com/some/path/<wildcard> -> someotherrepo.com/some/path/<wildcard>'

Obviously wildcard isn't valid syntax, just showing the concept. I've tried with a single lowercase character, but that doesn't work here.

Is it possible to do what I'm trying with gofmt?

`gofmt` can't do this, because the wildcard can only match expressions, not arbitrary text. You can use https://github.com/rogpeppe/govers which does precisely what you want. — JimB, Apr 22 '16 at 13:37

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 04:48

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This is what the gofmt command page says

Given a file, it operates on that file; given a directory, it operates on all .go files
in that directory, recursively

answered Apr 22 '16 at 04:48

HaseebR7

That doesn't help at all, because the path is a syntactic construct to rewrite, not a file path to operate on. – Jon Watte Feb 10 '22 at 19:17

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