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``--help``, ``--h``
Show short summary of options.
- You can also pass a shell pattern to this option, which will list all
- matching top-level options, e.g. ``--h=*scale*`` for all options that
- contain the word "scale".
+ You can also pass a string to this option, which will list all top-level
+ options which contain the string in the name, e.g. ``--h=scale`` for all
+ options that contain the word ``scale``. The special string ``*`` lists
+ all top-level options.
``-v``
Increment verbosity level, one level for each ``-v`` found on the command