go-flags
go command line option parser (by jessevdk)
flag
Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand (by cosiner)
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| go-flags | flag | |
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| 9 | - | |
| 2,505 | 130 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.5 | |
| 1 day ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
go-flags
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-flags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags provides a pretty neat way to specify flags and handle commands. Not so much extensible as cobra, but good enough for small cli tools
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Show HN: New set of Go libraries for CLI Development
flags aims to merge the concepts from https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags, and https://github.com/octago/sflags, both relying on struct tags to define CLI command specs. The flags library uses these underlying concepts to produce complete `cobra.Command` trees, and brings many comfort-of-life improvements for the generated applications/commands.
Console (https://github.com/reeflective/console)
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
Flags (https://github.com/reeflective/flags) flags aims to merge the concepts from https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags, and https://github.com/octago/sflags, both relying on struct tags to define CLI command specs. The flags library uses these underlying concepts to produce complete `cobra.Command` trees, and brings many comfort-of-life improvements for the generated applications/commands.
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Golang equivalent of Python’s click (CLT framework)
go-flags
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Eclipse: python-fire inspired library to simplify creating CLIs in Go, on top of Cobra
Not speaking for OP, but my experience with it is that it was overkill for my own needs. I went with go-flags.
See https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags for another popular way to do this that aligns with your ideas.
Yeah, I just didn't need the command-subcommand scheme. I used the go-flags test file for examples: https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/blob/master/example_test.go
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Golang - Writing CLI App in Golang with Cobra
There are alternatives available for Cobra as well i.e. mitchellh/cli, go-flags, urfave/cli etc.
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What are some good open source project to read when learning Go?
https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags - struct based flag parsing
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 go-flags and flag you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go