In the previous chapter, we talked about many interesting topics including working with Unix system files, dealing with dates and times in Go, finding information about file permissions and users as well as regular expressions and pattern matching.
The central subject of this chapter is developing Go applications that can handle the Unix signals that can be caught and handled. Go offers the os/signal package for dealing with signals, which uses Go channels. Although channels are fully explored in the next chapter, this will not stop you from learning how to work with Unix signals in Go programs.
Furthermore, you will learn how to create Go command-line utilities that can work with Unix pipes, how to draw bar charts in Go, and how to implement a Go version of the cat(1) utility. So, in this chapter you will learn about the following topics:
- Listing the processes...
