cli: building better command line interfaces

cli is a Golang package intended to encourage a more consistant command line user interface in programs written for Caltech Library using Go.

Features include:

• Code generation for a command line tool
• Integrated support for generating Markdown docs from a cli program
• Integrated support for generating man pages from a cli program
• Short/Long option (flag) support for both the command and verbs

Command line tools

Two command line tools come with the cli package.

• cligenerate - will generate a skelton command line program
• pkgassets - will take Markdown docs and create a go program file where each doc’s name is the key and contents are the byte array value representing the docs