readline
Readline is a pure go(golang) implementation for GNU-Readline kind library (by chzyer)
cobra
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions (by spf13)
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| readline | cobra | |
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| 9 | 129 | |
| 2,027 | 35,891 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.8 | |
| 6 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
readline
Posts with mentions or reviews of readline.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
- I need CTRL + A (Select all) command on the cmd
- After years of bash, I actually found a shortcut I never heard about.
- Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
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shell-reader - an easy-to-use library for creating shells for the Linux terminal with support for navigating command history
That's nice, were you aware of readline?
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Ask HN: What libraries does go have for building interactive shells?
Do you want to build an interactive shell or a cli tool? For a custom shell I have used https://github.com/chzyer/readline before, but I did not work on it a lot.
I also wanted custom completions based on context and this readline implementation was decent for that.
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Just ordered the C2 as my first mechanical keyboard
On first glance, it seems like the Mac layout would be less convenient with Linux due to the alt/option key being further from the spacebar and more awkward to hit with your thumb. This makes a lot of commonly used keybindings (such as the standard readline keybindings, https://github.com/chzyer/readline/blob/master/doc/shortcut.md, commonly used in bash and other shells amongst other applications) harder to hit. Linux GUI applications use alt/option more frequently than super/command as well.
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The Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash
The authors keep a crib sheet here: https://github.com/chzyer/readline/blob/master/doc/shortcut.md
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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
but that's the readline shortcuts which are the same no matter which Unix terminal you are using, on macOS, Linux, cygwin, git bash, WSL...
https://github.com/chzyer/readline/blob/master/doc/shortcut....
- Print editable string in terminal
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 readline and cobra you can also consider the following projects:
liner - Pure Go line editor with history, inspired by linenoise
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
complete - bash completion written in go + bash completion for go command
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
go-cli - A full-featured and easy to use command-line package
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
wmenu - An easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.
go-flags - go command line option parser
mow.cli - A versatile library for building CLI applications in Go