Sometimes we write "one off" scripts to deal with certain task. However most often than not these scripts live more than just the one time. This is very common in ops related code that for some reason people don't apply the regular coding standards to.
It really upsets me when I try to see what a script is doing, run it with --help flag and it happily deletes the database while I wait :) It's so easy to add help support in the command line. In Python we do it with argparse, and we role our own in bash. Both cases it's extra 3 lines of code.
Please be kind to future self and add --help support to your scripts.
If it won't be simple, it simply won't be. [Hire me, source code] by Miki Tebeka, CEO, 353Solutions
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