From: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 04:39:33 +0000 (+1200)
Subject: samba-tool: treat 'samba-tool help foo' as 'samba-tool foo --help'
X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/?p=metze%2Fsamba%2Fwip.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=316594f211340cc2d11a98895f624b50f2e51f7c

samba-tool: treat 'samba-tool help foo' as 'samba-tool foo --help'

Vaguely keeping up with the modern style.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py b/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py
index ad8143de856f..05ecc432ea6b 100644
--- a/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py
+++ b/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py
@@ -202,6 +202,19 @@ class SuperCommand(Command):
             return self.subcommands[subcommand]._run(
                 "%s %s" % (myname, subcommand), *args)
 
+        if subcommand == 'help':
+            # pass the request down
+            if len(args) > 0:
+                sub = self.subcommands.get(args[0])
+                if isinstance(sub, SuperCommand):
+                    return sub._run("%s %s" % (myname, args[0]), 'help',
+                                    *args[1:])
+                elif sub is not None:
+                    return sub._run("%s %s" % (myname, args[0]), '--help',
+                                    *args[1:])
+
+            subcommand = '--help'
+
         epilog = "\nAvailable subcommands:\n"
         subcmds = self.subcommands.keys()
         subcmds.sort()