Support `/` for switches.

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Relevant area(s)

WinGet CLI

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Forcing users to use -- to introduce a switch like --force introduces friction, especially where users come from older Windows CLI tools where the standard introduction is a slash. I'd like the ability to use either a slash or double dash to introduce a switch

Proposed technical implementation details

Enhance the argument parser to treat a slash the same as a double dash for argument parsing. It would be nice to also support slash instead of single dash for aliases

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This issue is being filed for testing duplicate detection

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Possible duplicates (surfaced automatically for maintainer review — this issue has not been closed):

• Winget should support slash to introduce a switch #472 — Requests the same feature: supporting / (slash) to introduce CLI switches, identical to the Windows-style argument syntax described here.

Maintainers: if one of these is the canonical issue, comment Duplicate of #<number> to consolidate. Earlier/curated issues are preferred as canonical.

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Duplicate of #472

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