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CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser (by alecthomas)
cobra
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions (by spf13)
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3,441 | 35,891 | |
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5.2 | 7.8 | |
21 days ago | 8 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
kingpin
Posts with mentions or reviews of kingpin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.
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climate "CLI Mate": a CLI library that autogenerates CLIs from structs / functions with support for nested subcommands, global / local flags, help generation from godocs, typo suggestions, shell completion and more
Args could also have detailed help (like flags) -- usage line is already auto-generated from arg(s) name and type but that's about it. This is something Cobra doesn't do for whatever reason (but https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin does and I like it)
- What is the best way to handle flags?
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:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kingpin and cobra you can also consider the following projects:
go-flags - go command line option parser
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
pingme - PingMe is a CLI which provides the ability to send messages or alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.