[chef] Why is knife --help so slow??

[DV < >]

Hey all,

I have a bash_completion script that calls "knife --help" to get a list of suggestions. The script works great, but each call costs about 2 seconds due to "knife --help" taking this long.

Any ideas why it's so slow? It isn't doing anything, just outputting help info. Should take under a millisecond, right?

$ time knife node --help >/dev/null 2>&1

real    0m0.878s

user    0m0.776s

sys     0m0.100s

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Best regards, Dmitriy V.