The Go documentation (http://golang.org/pkg/flag/) says:
The FlagSet type allows one to define independent sets of flags, such as to implement subcommands in a command-line interface.
I need this functionality but I can't figure out how to persuade the flag pkg to do it. When I define two FlagSets, parsing one of them will give me errors and warnings if the commandline has flags that are meant for the second one. Example:
f1 := flag.NewFlagSet("f1", flag.ContinueOnError) apply := f1.Bool("apply", false, "") silent := f1.Bool("silent", false, "") if err := f1.Parse(os.Args[1:]); err == nil { fmt.Println(*apply, *silent) } f2 := flag.NewFlagSet("f2", flag.ContinueOnError) reset := f2.Bool("reset", false, "") if err := f2.Parse(os.Args[1:]); err == nil { fmt.Println(*reset) } I get all sorts of warnings if I try to do cmd -apply OR cmd -reset. I want to keep these FlagSets separate because I want to only have -silent work for -apply.
What am I missing?