cobra
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions (by spf13)
flag
Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand (by cosiner)
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| cobra | flag | |
|---|---|---|
| 129 | - | |
| 35,891 | 130 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.8 | 4.5 | |
| 8 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cobra
Posts with mentions or reviews of cobra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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The power of the CLI with Golang and Cobra CLI
We can use the flag with --date or -date, Go already does the automatic check. We can make our entire boilerplate with this approach, but let's make it a little easier and use the Cobra CLI package.
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Build your own curl in Golang
In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of creating a simple command-line tool similar to curl using Go and Cobra, a CLI library for Go.
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Scripts should be written using the project main language
I use https://github.com/spf13/cobra religiously for this kind of thing - it handles all the annoying corner cases of parsing flags, and also has an intuitive notion of subcommands (with basic usage/help text generated) for picking which task you want to run with positional arguments.
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Command Line Interface Guidelines
We recently chose cobra[1] to create a cli application. It comes with so many best practices already packaged like autocompletions, help texts etc. etc.
[1]: https://github.com/spf13/cobra
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What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
github.com/spf13/cobra
- O poder do CLI com Golang e Cobra CLI
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How to read Cobra command line flag
I looked at the docs: https://cobra.dev/ ... and there are only examples on how to add new flags.
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Dockerizing Golang CLI Tool - A Step-by-Step Guide
For installing Cobra-CLI you can go to Cobraor run go install github.com/spf13/cobra-cli@latest in the terminal.
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Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial
In my build phase, I compile the source to create a k3sup binary and I also run the binary to generate shell script completions. Give kudos to this functionality which comes from spf13/cobra Go library for CLIs.
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Add License Headers to Your Code Files
NWA is a command-line tool built on cobra. Here's an overview of NWA's commands:
flag
Posts with mentions or reviews of flag.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning flag yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cobra and flag you can also consider the following projects:
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
go-flags - go command line option parser
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.