How To Use the Cobra Package in Go

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-cobra-package-in-go

Step 1 - Setting Up Your Development Environment

The go mod command initializes a new project in the specified working directory. The command also creates a go.mod file in the directory for managing your project’s dependencies.

go mod init cmdlnCobraDOcean

Step 2 - Getting Started the Cobra Package

You can run this command in the terminal of your project’s working directory to install the Cobra-cli package.

go install github.com/spf13/cobra-cli@latest

The command installs the Cobra-cli package as a CLI executable.

After installing the package, you can initialize a Cobra CLI project with the init command of the command line tool.

/home/tarso/go/bin/cobra-cli init

You must install your CLI package with the install command to access the changes and interact with your CLI app.

go install

After installing your CLI project application, you can run the tool with commands to test the tool and its functionalities.

/home/tarso/go/bin/cmdlnCobraDOcean

Step 3 - Retrieving the Time in a Timezone With the Time Package

Create a time.go file with this command in the cmd directory.

cd cmd && touch time.go