Cobra init not working,: Command not found

Question

I am following this guide.

***@pop-os:~/go/src/foo$ cobra init --pkg-name foo
Command 'cobra' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install cobra

My setup:

I have go 1.16 installed

$ go version 
go version go1.16.3 linux/amd64

my $GOPATH is set to ~/go

$ go env
...
GOPATH="/home/***/go"

What I have done: I used the command

$ go get -u github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra

In my bin's dir I now find cobra

***@pop-os:~/go/bin$ ls
cobra
...

What am I doing wrong?

Conceptualism

easiest thing to do is just create an alias in .zshrc or .bashrc alias cobra="~/go/bin/cobra" since it is already in the path – Stateroom

For anyone that's coming here with no issue in establishing their path environment variable or with pointing to the binary - simply with the binary installing. If you happened to have an issue with cannot find package "github.com/hashicorp/hcl/hcl/printer, then simply enable Go modules and try again via env GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra. – Transfuse

Answer 1

Use

go mod init <MODNAME>
~/go/bin/cobra-cli init

or keep reading to learn how to to make the cobra-cli command available on the command line.

This seems to be an issue of $PATH configuration. Because the cobra-cli command is not found, the path ~/go/bin is not part of the $PATH variable. One can add the path like this:

export PATH="~/go/bin:$PATH"

and then use the cobra-cli command on the command-line. One can add that export ... command to ~/.bashrc or a similar file to have the PATH configured properly on startup.

Tade

Thank you, explaining what is wrong is so helpful. The concept of $PATH is still not familiar to me. I will try to learn more about it. – Conceptualism

Thank you, most times it's a path issue. – Omalley

Answer 2

The cobra command is now become cobra-cli. see https://github.com/spf13/cobra#usage

Saritasarkaria

Answer 3

had same issue, it is on path but still same. The solution that worked for me was updating my .bashrc file

nano ~/.bashrc

add this alias in this file

alias cobra-cli="~/go/bin/cobra-cli"

you might want to reload your terminal. run this command to check if it works

cobra-cli init

you should have a response different from what you had before

Defamatory

Answer 4

For Mac

`nano ~/.zshrc`
alias cobra-cli="~/go/bin/cobra-cli"

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