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Sometimes, arguably, you can do better. For instance, some CLI tools try to guess what the user was trying to accomplish, and show a more specialized message. Eg. kubectl will tell users that a particular kind of resource they were looking for doesn't exist, but there are some with similar names.

This is especially useful in situations where the help text is enormous (dozens and dozens of options).



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