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+# gorigin
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+Have you ever peered into `$GOPATH/bin` only to wonder where all that stuff came from?
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+As someone who originally came from scripting languages where one could trivially peer into an 'executable' using an editor, the origin of binaries in that folder (specifically if `GOPATH=~`) was completely opaque to me. Not any more!
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+`gorigin` helps shed light on this by creating a list of binaries in all the `bin` folders in the `GOPATH` and marching through all the `src` folders in the `GOPATH` and reporting when a go package with a package name of `main` matches.