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[Feature]: support "help" as a subcommand synonymous with "--help"

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, cloud

Research direction

Start at the CLI entry points that parse <command> help, --help, and -h, and compare their current behavior. Clarify whether the change is only an alias or also requires a paged manual, then identify the existing CLI checks for help output and verify the agreed behavior for stdout and the default pager.

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enhancement
Description

Across all the different cloud providers, it becomes easy to forget which option brings up the documentation, manual page, or usage. I frequently find myself typing linode <command> help, only to then have to go back and running linode <command> --help (or -h).

It'd be nice if help as a subcommand was synonymous with --help. It'd be even nicer if a help subcommand brought up a full manual page similar to how AWS cli tools do it. Ideally, you'd then have linode <command> help get you the full, detailed manual page in the default pager and lincode <command> --help give you the summary of supported command-line options on stdout only.

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