Top 23 Go Standard CLI Projects

• cobra

  129 35,985 7.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

Project mention: The power of the CLI with Golang and Cobra CLI | dev.to | 2024-04-06

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.

• urfave/cli

  26 21,595 8.8 Go

  A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)

  

Project mention: Best practices for distributing and updating a Go CLI on Linux? | /r/golang | 2023-05-18

Can you use a framework like urfavecli https://github.com/urfave/cli? This will auto-update every time it detects a new version from your CLI's GitHub repository

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• elvish

  40 5,324 9.5 Go

  Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell

  

Project mention: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-14

• kingpin

  2 3,441 5.2 Go

  CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser

Project mention: 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 | /r/golang | 2023-07-07

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)

• The Platinum Searcher

  2 2,794 0.0 Go

  A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

• Dnote

  4 2,685 4.8 Go

  A simple command line notebook for programmers

  

• go-flags

  9 2,509 0.0 Go

  go command line option parser

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• pflag

  13 2,307 0.0 Go

  Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

Project mention: issue with pflag flagset | /r/golang | 2023-05-07

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.

• readline

  9 2,030 0.0 Go

  Readline is a pure go(golang) implementation for GNU-Readline kind library

Project mention: I need CTRL + A (Select all) command on the cmd | /r/linuxquestions | 2023-05-27

• kong

  9 1,823 7.6 Go

  Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)

Project mention: 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 | /r/golang | 2023-07-07

I’ve been using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong for exposing generated protobuf structs for CLI args. How does your library compare?

• mitchellh/cli

  8 1,721 0.0 Go

  A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces. (by mitchellh)

• docopt.go

  3 1,424 0.0 Go

  A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.

  

Project mention: Getopt like argument parser for Golang. | /r/golang | 2023-05-19

There isn't enough compelling reasons to use your library as mentioned by n4jm4 there is already docopt. https://github.com/docopt/docopt.go or the standard flag library.

• liner

  0 1,032 0.0 Go

  Pure Go line editor with history, inspired by linenoise

• cli-init

  0 925 0.0 Go

  The easy way to build Golang command-line application.

• complete

  1 912 0.0 Go

  bash completion written in go + bash completion for go command

• mow.cli

  2 870 0.0 Go

  A versatile library for building CLI applications in Go

• flaggy

  1 846 0.0 Go

  Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.

• cli

  0 719 1.4 Go

  CLI - A package for building command line app with go (by mkideal)

• carapace-bin

  5 619 9.8 Go

  multi-shell multi-command argument completer

  

Project mention: Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

• argparse

  2 589 0.0 Go

  Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks (by akamensky)

• box-cli-maker

  9 450 5.6 Go

  Make Highly Customized Boxes for CLI

Project mention: Show HN: Box CLI Maker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

• 1build

  0 221 0.0 Go

  Frictionless way of managing project-specific commands

• climax

  1 213 0.0 Go

  Climax is an alternative CLI with the human face

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• Show HN: Box CLI Maker
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• Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
• Carapace-bin: multi-shell multi-command argument completer
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
• How to read Cobra command line flag
  1 project | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2023
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  3 projects | dev.to | 11 Oct 2023
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