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> Fun aside, I think -h/--help is nowadays the most widespread and accepted version in Linux/Unix-Land

The most notable exception (to me) among modern tooling is the `aws` cli, which parses help as a subcommand. And if you try `--help` it just gives you an `Unkown option` response.

I'm mildly amused by the need to reserve a little bit of brain-space for the ways to ask cli tooling for help




It would be easy for the authors of this tool to fix this behaviour. Checkout `git --help` vs `git help`, both versions work. That's just being nice to the user.




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