Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

Navigating Your New Cobra Application

Cobra structures your application by creating a simple main.go file that only imports the package cmd and executes the application. The main.go file looks like this:

cobra/pScan/main.go

/*
Copyright © 2020 The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
Copyrights apply to this source code.
Check LICENSE for details.

*/
package main

import "pragprog.com/rggo/cobra/pScan/cmd"

func main() {
  cmd.Execute()
}

The core functionality of your application resides in the cmd package. When you run the command, the main function calls cmd.Execute to execute the root command of your application. You can find this function and the general structure of the program in the cmd/root.go file. The Execute ...