The following might suffice, piping to awk instead of tail.

sh-4.2$ export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/share/gocode/bin
sh-4.2$ godoc -src fmt Printf | awk '/\/\//{f=1} f{print}'
// Printf formats according to a format specifier and writes to standard output.
// It returns the number of bytes written and any write error encountered.
func Printf(format string, a ...interface{}) (n int, err error) {
    return Fprintf(os.Stdout, format, a...)
}


sh-4.2$

http://nurmi-labs.blogspot.com/2015/10/awk.html

techically I think you want to output the godoc comment and function

I know you can workaround this by stripping text with different utilities but I feel this is kinda off-topic since what is really wanted is a way to get the expected output from godoc itself and ensure that it doesn't happen in other places for some reason where you suddenly have 2 problems.

not being the author of Go source code godoc comments followed by a function

I would think that the current authors of such code sections could be able to clarify

that there are not present any anomalies in such code sections

/cc @andybons - Do we want something like this ? We can add another flag which suppresses the extra message, but not sure if it's worth the effort.

It seems like a narrow use case to me, and the coder who opened this issue (based on his prompt) seems to be running bash, on a Unix-like OS or using a 'Git for Windows', either of which would typically accompany a GNU awk installation. I think adding an extra flag would simply clutter up the source code.

It would seem weird for a documentation tool to offer an option to omit said documentation.

I don't think this is within scope of godoc. You could create a tool in a rather straightforward way by making use of the stdlib go package.