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Rather exotic use-case - if you have an executable and forgot where it was built from, import-path tells you its import path:

import-path() {
        [[ -z "$1" ]] && { echo "usage: import-path EXECUTABLE" >&2; return 1; }
        go tool objdump -s main.main "$(which $1)" |
                grep -E '^TEXT main.main' | cut -d' ' -f3 |
                sed -e 's/.*\/src\/\(.*\)\/[^\/]*/\1/'
}

$ import-path godoc
golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
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