Append to a file in Go

So I can read from a l开发者_Go百科ocal file like so:

data, error := ioutil.ReadFile(name)

And I can write to a local file

ioutil.WriteFile(filename, content, permission)

But how can I append to a file? Is there a built in method?

This answers works in Go1:

f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0600)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

defer f.Close()

if _, err = f.WriteString(text); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

Go docs has a perfect example :

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    // If the file doesn't exist, create it, or append to the file
    f, err := os.OpenFile("access.log", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    if _, err := f.Write([]byte("appended some data\n")); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

Figured it out

More info

f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, 0644) 

n, err := f.WriteString(text) 

f.Close()

... I would use fmt.Fprintf, because accept a writer... and a connection or files will be a writer and easy to write in a way of string...

f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, 0600)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

defer f.Close()
fmt.Fprintf(f, "%s", text)

I hope this help!

Javier,

If you also want to create the file

f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, 0600)

f, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0644)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

defer f.Close()

if _, err = f.WriteString(text); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

Made a slight change from the one provided in the golang site by adding flags to the os.OpenFile function which by default will only allow reading of a file and not editing amongst other features.

Let's say you want to add the contents of filecurrent to the file all, then below code is working:

func updateTrx() {
    var err error
    var f *os.File

    // If the file doesn't exist, create it, or append to the file
    if f, err = os.OpenFile("all.csv", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer func() {
        if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
            log.Fatal("error", err)
        }
    }()

    var current *os.File
    if current, err = os.OpenFile("current.csv", os.O_RDONLY, 0); err != nil {
        log.Fatal("error", err)
    }

    defer func() {
        if err := current.Close(); err != nil {
            log.Fatal("error", err)
        }
    }()

    if fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(current); err != nil {
        log.Fatal("error", err)
    } else {
        if _, err := f.Write([]byte(fileBytes)); err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
    }
}