Directory Server in Go

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I've been spending time learning Go and here's a small utility I wrote that's similar to Python's SimpleHTTPServer.

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	if len(os.Args) < 2 {
		log.Fatal("You must enter a path")
	}
	path := os.Args[1]

	http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir(path)))
	http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
}

This creates an HTTP server serving all of the files in the path you specify.

Just use this:

go run serve.go /etc

Or do go build serve.go and it will create a binary you can run.