Make a cobra Command flag required

Question

I\'ve created a cobra command and added a flag:

cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&primaryIP, \"primary-ip\", \"p\", \"\", \"Help text\")

Is there a w

Answer 1

A few months ago this behavior was changed in cobra, although the documentation is not very clear on this. Now if you mark a flag as MarkFlagRequired("primary-ip") and you don't supply such a flag, running the command will print the help plus

required flag(s) "primary-ip"
exit status 1

at the end where the missing required flags are stated.