upgrade-go

Upgrading go in 40 lines of bash. Blog post here.

Requirements

• Linux system with golang installed (usually to /usr/local/go)
• A user with sudo privileges
• Internet access
• curl
• tar
• gzip

Sample Output

chad@dev-vm:~$ ./upgrade_go_linux.sh
This will upgrade go... are you sure? (Y/N) y
Found: https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.9.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Downloading now...
Downloaded 127961523 bytes in 4.606516s
Uncompressing: go1.12.9.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Updated to go version go1.12.9 linux/amd64!