pflag
Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags. (by spf13)
cobra
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions (by spf13)
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| 13 | 129 | |
| 2,307 | 35,891 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.8 | |
| 2 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
pflag
Posts with mentions or reviews of pflag.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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issue with pflag flagset
My understanding is that you can use pflag as a drop in replacement of the standard lib's flag (import flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"). So it can be used as a standalone lib I suppose.
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
I realy enjoyed the patched version from spf13 with "--" support https://github.com/spf13/pflag
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Define custom command-line flag types in Go 1.19
Nice, but Cobra (with pflag underneath) is so, so better.
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-h --help -help help --? -? ????
Not by default on stdlib. There are libraries available though - https://github.com/spf13/pflag
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Coral, a friendly Cobra fork with nearly all its features, but only 4 dependencies
Flag functionality is provided by the pflag library, a fork of the flag standard library which maintains the same interface while adding POSIX compliance.
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xflags: An approach to command line flags with support for subcommands, positional args, environment variables, etc.
How does it compare to https://github.com/spf13/pflag ?
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The flag package: strange but good?
spf13 has a drop in pflag that does the - short and -- long flags.
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What are your favorite packages to use?
oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).
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akamensky/argparse: Argparse for Golang. Just because "flag" sucks!
What are the benefits of this package over the widely used spf13/pflag?
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Go’s highly modular nature makes it particularly good for situations where requirements are changing or evolving.
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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 pflag and cobra you can also consider the following projects:
flag - Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
go-flags - go command line option parser
complete - bash completion written in go + bash completion for go command
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
flaggy - Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.