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I know right? You might have to use the man pages.
I love it how you just want to do something simple and very, very common and normal with a command but you don't know the magic flags to get it to do it and they're not just a logical one (like, say "-a" for all) so you do a man for it and it has something like 50 flags listed in alphabethical rather than functional order, some of which only make sense in specific combinations (which are never show together and have to be found by reading the entries for all 50 flags) and there are no examples anywhere to be found of normal usage scenarios for that command.
So that's when you use some internet search engine and it turns out the most common simplest use of it is something like "doshit --lol --nokidding --verbose=3".