Is there a way to escape flag input?

[shairozan]

Let's say I have a flag called app_options. I want to basically take whatever raw string is provided there and use it to hand to a binary underneath my application.

Ergo if the CLI app I'm calling is do_the_thing, I want to pass the options from app_options to do_the_thing.

Ie
do_the_thing [app_options]

specifying --app_options "-maxlim=0" only yields a value of 0 for the app_options flag as if the rest of the string had been captured as a flag itself.

Is there a way to specify an unescaped or unparsed string such that the above would pass the entirety of maxlim=0 into the cobra flag?

[github-actions]

This issue is being marked as stale due to a long period of inactivity

[fulviodenza]

Is there any update about this issue?
I'm having the same trouble, I described it here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70146280/cannot-insert-dash-in-cobra-parameters

[fulviodenza]

Found a solution, the user will need to add a "--" to the command

[marckhouzam]

You may also be interested in the Interspersed option of pflag: https://github.com/spf13/pflag/blob/d5e0c0615acee7028e1e2740a11102313be88de1/flag.go#L1208

[marckhouzam]

There's an explanation of the interspersed option in this issue #1307 (comment)

[johnSchnake]

Sounds like this got resolved. Closing.