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+# coding=utf-8
+"""
+A cmd2 script that saves the help text for every command and sub-commands to a file
+This is meant to be run with pyscript within a cmd2 session.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+from typing import List
+
+
+def get_sub_commands(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> List[str]:
+    """Returns a list of sub-commands for an ArgumentParser"""
+
+    sub_cmds = []
+
+    # Check if this is parser has sub-commands
+    if parser is not None and parser._subparsers is not None:
+
+        # Find the _SubParsersAction for the sub-commands of this parser
+        for action in parser._subparsers._actions:
+            if isinstance(action, argparse._SubParsersAction):
+                for sub_cmd, sub_cmd_parser in action.choices.items():
+                    sub_cmds.append(sub_cmd)
+
+                    # Look for nested sub-commands
+                    for nested_sub_cmd in get_sub_commands(sub_cmd_parser):
+                        sub_cmds.append('{} {}'.format(sub_cmd, nested_sub_cmd))
+
+                break
+
+    return sub_cmds
+
+
+# Make sure we have access to self
+if 'self' not in globals():
+    print("Run 'set locals_in_py true' and then rerun this script")
+
+# Make sure the user passed in an output file
+elif len(sys.argv) != 2:
+    print("Usage: {} <output_file>".format(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])))
+else:
+    outfile = sys.argv[1]
+
+    # Get a list of all commands and help topics and then filter out duplicates
+    to_print = set(self.get_all_commands()) | set(self.get_help_topics())
+
+    # Create a script that will call help on each command and topic and write its output to a file
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+t', delete=False) as temp:
+
+        # First delete any existing output file
+        temp.write('!rm -f {}\n'.format(outfile))
+
+        for item in to_print:
+            temp.write('help {} >> {}\n'.format(item, outfile))
+
+            # Add any sub-commands
+            for subcmd in get_sub_commands(getattr(self.cmd_func(item), 'argparser', None)):
+                temp.write('help {} {} >> {}\n'.format(item, subcmd, outfile))
+
+        # Have the script delete itself as its last step
+        temp.write('!rm -f {}\n'.format(temp.name))
+
+        # Tell cmd2 to run the script as its next command
+        self.cmdqueue.insert(0, "load '{}'".format(temp.name))