---
name: "go-bindata"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "go-bindata"
version: "3.0.7+git20151023.72.a0ff256-4+b16"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/go-bindata"
---

# go-bindata(8)

embed data in a Go program

## NAME

**go-bindata** – embed data in a Go program

## SYNOPSIS

**go-bindata** \[options\] *input* \[*input* *...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**go-bindata** converts any file into manageable Go source code. It is useful for embedding binary data into a Go program. The file data is optionally gzip compressed before being converted to a raw byte slice.

*input* is an input directory containing the assets to incorporate. If suffixed by */...* it will be searched recursively.

The options are as follows:

- **-debug**

  Do not embed the assets, but provide the embedding API. Contents will still be loaded from disk.

- **-nocompress**

  Assets will \*not\* be GZIP compressed when this flag is specified.

- **-nomemcopy**

  Use a .rodata hack to get rid of unnecessary memcopies. Refer to the documentation to see what implications this carries.

- **-pkg** *package*

  Package name to use in the generated code.

- **-prefix** *prefix*

  Optional path prefix to strip off asset names.

- **-o**

  Name of the output file to be generated.

- **-tags** *tags*

  Optional set of build tags to include.

## AUTHORS

The **go-bindata** program was written by Jim Teeuwen.