devcontainers / devcontainers/cli

Add `-w, --workdir` flag support to `devcontainer exec`

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Description

Currently `devcontainer exec` always runs commands from the workspace folder.

I would like to be able to `devcontainer exec` from a subdirectory of my devcontainer project.

The proposal is for `devcontainer exec` to accept and pass the `-w` or `--workdir` flags to `docker compose exec` or `docker exec`.

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