Is it possible to handle -h and --help differently?

[TLINDEN]

Many programs show a short help message with -h and a detailed one with --help. Currently cobra handles both options in the same way. Is it possible to change this somehow with custom help messages?

[marckhouzam]

Interesting question. You may be able to figure out which form of the flag was used on the command line in your custom function.

[TLINDEN]

My current simple workaround is to catch -h before cobra takes over:

[..]
        rootCmd.SetUsageTemplate(strings.TrimSpace(usage) + "\n")

        if slices.Contains(os.Args, "-h") {
                fmt.Println(shortusage)
                os.Exit(0)
        }

        err := rootCmd.Execute()
        if err != nil {
                os.Exit(1)
        }