facebook / facebook/zstd

Promote -v and -q option to standard option displayed by -h

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https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/4455#issuecomment-3166077112
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/4619#issuecomment-4048931355

One more thing, not a few beginners mistakenly try to show its version by `-v` flag. They will get:

```
zstd -v
*** Zstandard CLI (64-bit) v1.5.7, by Yann Collet ***
stdin is a console, aborting
```

This "unknown" behavior must be described by `-h`.

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`-h` should display how to use `-v` and `-q` like the other competing commands (e.g. `gzip`).

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Who on earth cares?

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See https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/4455#issue-3295169130 for the output of each command.

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