Overview
Cobra is a library providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI
interfaces similar to git & go tools.
Cobra is also an application that will generate your application scaffolding to rapidly
develop a Cobra-based application.
Cobra provides:
- Easy subcommand-based CLIs:
app server
,app fetch
, etc. - Fully POSIX-compliant flags (including short & long versions)
- Nested subcommands
- Global, local and cascading flags
- Easy generation of applications & commands with
cobra init appname
&cobra add cmdname
- Intelligent suggestions (
app srver
… did you meanapp server
?) - Automatic help generation for commands and flags
- Automatic help flag recognition of
-h
,--help
, etc. - Automatically generated bash autocomplete for your application
- Automatically generated man pages for your application
- Command aliases so you can change things without breaking them
- The flexibility to define your own help, usage, etc.
- Optional tight integration with viper for 12-factor apps