devcontainers / devcontainers/cli

devcontainer exec attempts confuses args depending on order

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Description

When running `devcontainer exec --workspace-folder . ls` everything works as expected.
When running `devcontainer --workspace-folder . exec ls` the devcontainer CLI attempts to run `exec` in the container. It confuses the args and interprets `exec` as `cmd`.

![image](https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/assets/3210701/8b655e87-52a0-4bf2-b6ac-d802835b1216)

Am I correct in assuming that `devcontainer --workspace-folder . exec` should be a valid way to invoke exec?

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