add gocritic/ruleguard checks back again, cleanup code. (#13665)

- remove some duplicated code
- reported a bug, separately fixed in #13664
- using strings.ReplaceAll() when needed
- using filepath.ToSlash() use when needed
- remove all non-Go style comments from the codebase

Co-authored-by: Aditya Manthramurthy <donatello@users.noreply.github.com>

cmd/consolelogger.go

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import (
 // number of log messages to buffer
 const defaultLogBufferCount = 10000
 
-//HTTPConsoleLoggerSys holds global console logger state
+// HTTPConsoleLoggerSys holds global console logger state
 type HTTPConsoleLoggerSys struct {
 	sync.RWMutex
 	pubsub   *pubsub.PubSub