Mastering Go - Second Edition

Creating command aliases

In this section, you will learn how to create aliases for existing commands with cobra.

As before, you will first need to create a new cobra project, which in this case is going to be called aliases, along with the desired commands. This can be done as follows:

$ ~/go/bin/cobra init aliases
$ cd ~/go/src/aliases
$ ~/go/bin/cobra add initialization
initialization created at /Users/mtsouk/go/src/aliases/cmd/initialization.go
$ ~/go/bin/cobra add preferences
preferences created at /Users/mtsouk/go/src/aliases/cmd/preferences.go
  

So far, you have a command-line utility that supports two commands, named initialization and preferences.

Each alias of an existing cobra command needs to be explicitly specified in the Go code. ...