Error: unknown flag: --pkg-name when cobra-cli init

[Sam Oz]

Hi, noob here. I have been trying to learn to use cobra, all the tutorials uses --pkg-name flag. However when I use it like this
cobra-cli init --pkg-name=github.com/samozturk/randompackage it says Error: unknown flag: --pkg-name Usage: cobra-cli init [path] [flags]

Are these tutorials outdated or am I doing something wrong?

[John McBride]

Hi @samozturk - thanks for opening this. I've transferred this over to spf13/cobra-cli since this is where the cobra bootstrapping utility lives now.

Cool you've been learning to use cobra!

There isn't a pkg-name flag. You want to declare your package name via the go mod initialization:

go mod init github.com/samozturk/randompackage

You can read more about it in the init documentation

Good luck! 👏🏼