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Adding the First Subcommand to the Application

Explore how to enhance your Go command-line application by adding the first subcommand using the Cobra framework. Learn to generate subcommand files, set descriptions, attach commands, and utilize built-in help and autosuggestions to improve usability.

After initializing the application, we use the Cobra generator to add subcommands to it. The generator includes a file in the cmd directory for each subcommand. Each file includes boilerplate code for the subcommand. It also adds the subcommand to its parent, forming the tree-like structure.

Adding a subcommand

We add a new subcommand called hosts to our application to ...