amplify publish --help should show help

[trondhindenes]

How did you install the Amplify CLI?

npm

If applicable, what version of Node.js are you using?

No response

Amplify CLI Version

10.5.1

What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu

Did you make any manual changes to the cloud resources managed by Amplify? Please describe the changes made.

No

Describe the bug

I ran amplify publish --help because I wanted to find out how I could suppress the confirmation prompt. However, the command just ran as tho I hadn't added --help. I cannot find a decent cli help for the amplify cli anywhere.

Expected behavior

amplify cli should be a good citizen and output information about possible options etc when --help is used

Reproduction steps

Just run amplify publish --help

Project Identifier

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Log output

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Additional information

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[trondhindenes]

By doing some more googling, I found a reference to a global --yes parameter in here https://docs.amplify.aws/cli/usage/headless/. This was just by luck, I'd never thought of googling "headless mode".

Please fix the help interface for amplify cli so that we don't have to rely on arbitrary google searches to get to know the cli.

[josefaidt]

Hey @trondhindenes 👋 thanks for raising this! I think this is an excellent request and as such I have marked it as a feature request 🙂 there is an active effort around improving "help" as a whole.