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I just experienced this scenario today with aurutils [0]. Perhaps I needed to reboot after building it, but it only gave me any insight into its syntax when I typed “aur” with no other flags.
[0] https://github.com/AladW/aurutils
Funnily enough, find(1), one of the oldest Unix tools to still be somewhat actively used, had those from the very beginning. Although, arguably, find(1) can be considered an interpreter of a language of its own, like sed(1) and awk(1) ones, as opposed to a utility that accepts flags.
See the Unix v5 man page source: https://github.com/aap/unixman/blob/master/v5man/man1/find.1. (If anyone has a link where those are rendered, please let me know.)
It appears that docker cli will also eventually remove the short option for help. Their reasoning for it is to avoid conflicts with args (eg hostname '-h') in certain subcommands.[0][1]
But I don't see why they couldn't leave the base command's short option alone-- the user intent of a bare "docker -h" (or "podman -h") seems obvious.
[0] https://docs.docker.com/engine/deprecated/#-h-shorthand-for-...
[1] https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/3249