get system platform in go

You can use the runtime.GOOS constant to get the operating system name and runtime.GOARCH constant to get the architecture name in Go:

main.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"runtime"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Printf("OS: %s\nArch: %s", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
}
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This will output something like:

main.go
OS: linux
Arch: amd64
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Here are the possible values for runtime.GOOS:

• darwin (OS X)
• dragonfly (DragonFly BSD)
• freebsd
• linux
• netbsd
• openbsd
• plan9
• solaris
• windows