Unknown commands '-h' and '--help' about cobra HOT 7 CLOSED

This seems to be the case with all "global" flags, and I suspect this has actually never worked. It doesn't work for 10a8494 which introduced support for flags before commands. Basically, it looks like if there are no commands present, it never gets to the flag parsing phase. I wanted to be able to follow certain conventions wrt --help and --version, but it actually seems difficult to do with cobra.

You can workaround this in your code presently:

    rootCmd.ParseFlags(os.Args)
    rootFlags := rootCmd.Flags()
    rootFlags.Visit(func(flag *pflag.Flag) {
        if flag.Name == "help" {
            fmt.Println(rootCmd.Long)
            rootCmd.Usage()
            os.Exit(-1)
        }
    })
    rootCmd.Execute()

I thought about trying to do a PR for this but it doesn't look straightforward to fix.

Update: For whatever reason, rootCmd.Usage() won't show help in the list of available commands.

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@eparis as of the latest commit, -h was removed from the help template output. Was this intentional or related to this?

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it certainly possible i screwed it up and --help disappeared from the help output...

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I just built a sample cobra for the first time, and ran into the -h doesn't work but also noticed it wasn't there so I was trying to figure out how to add it.

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Nvm @eparis pebcak.

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I am not seeing this issue as of the latest build.

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Confirmed. Fixed in latest build.

Closing.

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