commander

commander is a spin off of golang go tool infrastructure to provide commands and sub-commands.

A commander.Command has a Subcommands field holding []*commander.Command subcommands, referenced by name from the command line.

So a Command can have sub commands.

So you can have, e.g.:

$ mycmd action1 [options...]
$ mycmd subcmd1 action1 [options...]

Example provided by:

• hwaf
• examples/my-cmd

Documentation

Is available on godoc

Installation

Is performed with the usual:

$ go get github.com/gonuts/commander

Example

See the simple my-cmd example command for how this all hangs together there:

$ my-cmd cmd1
my-cmd-cmd1: hello from cmd1 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd cmd1 -q
my-cmd-cmd1: hello from cmd1 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd cmd1 -q=0
my-cmd-cmd1: hello from cmd1 (quiet=false)

$ my-cmd cmd2
my-cmd-cmd2: hello from cmd2 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd subcmd1 cmd1
my-cmd-subcmd1-cmd1: hello from subcmd1-cmd1 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd subcmd1 cmd2
my-cmd-subcmd1-cmd2: hello from subcmd1-cmd2 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd subcmd2 cmd1
my-cmd-subcmd2-cmd1: hello from subcmd2-cmd1 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd subcmd2 cmd2
my-cmd-subcmd2-cmd2: hello from subcmd2-cmd2 (quiet=true)

$ my-cmd help
Usage:

	my-cmd command [arguments]

The commands are:

    cmd1        runs cmd1 and exits
    cmd2        runs cmd2 and exits
    subcmd1     subcmd1 subcommand. does subcmd1 thingies
    subcmd2     subcmd2 subcommand. does subcmd2 thingies

Use "my-cmd help [command]" for more information about a command.

Additional help topics:


Use "my-cmd help [topic]" for more information about that topic.


$ my-cmd help subcmd1
Usage:

	subcmd1 command [arguments]

The commands are:

    cmd1        runs cmd1 and exits
    cmd2        runs cmd2 and exits


Use "subcmd1 help [command]" for more information about a command.

Additional help topics:


Use "subcmd1 help [topic]" for more information about that topic.

TODO

• automatically generate the bash/zsh/csh autocompletion lists
• automatically generate Readme examples text
• test cases