docs: more detail for command line flags #8708
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The documentation for command-line flags uses “foo” and “bar” as placeholders without clarifying that they are generic examples of a key and a value.
New readers unfamiliar with this convention may interpret them as literal parameters. Suggest adding a short note as given explaining that “foo/bar” are placeholders for any config key/value.
This branch includes a full rewrite.
This change was originally suggested in npm/documentation#1760 — applying it here since the CLI docs are the true source