Print itself

Print itself is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Create a program, which prints its source code to the stdout!

Related task

• Quine.

Furor

<lang Furor> 1 argv getfile dup sprint free end </lang>

Go

<lang go>package main

import (

   "fmt"
   "io/ioutil"
   "log"
   "os"
   "path"

)

func main() {

   self := path.Base(os.Args[0]) + ".go"
   bytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(self)
   if err != nil {
       log.Fatal(err)
   }
   fmt.Print(string(bytes))

}</lang>

Output:

Just the invoking line as remainder is, of course, as above.

$ go run self_print.go

REXX

<lang rexx>/*REXX program prints its own multi─line source to the standard output (stdout). */

   do j=1  for sourceline()
   call lineout , sourceline(j)
   end   /*j*/                                  /*stick a fork in it,  we're all done. */</lang>

Wren

<lang ecmascript>import "os" for Process import "io" for File

var args = Process.allArguments System.write(File.read(args[1]))</lang>

Output:

Just the invoking line as remainder is, of course, as above.

$ wren self_print.wren