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 cmds offers tools for describing and calling commands both locally and remotely, as well as encoding, formatting and transferring the result. It is the successor of go-ipfs/commands and contains a legacy layer such that it can handle previously defined commands.
 
-Based on [go-ipfs/commands](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/tree/commands).
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 ## Documentation
 
 https://godoc.org/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-cmds