Common Command-Line Options

Every Maelstrom program supports the following command-line options, in addition to those command line options for common configuration values.

--help

The --help (or -h) command-line option will print out the program's command-line options, configuration values (including their associated environment variables), and configuration-file search path, then exit.

--version

The --version (or -v) command-line option will cause the program to print its software version, then exit.

--print-config

The --print-config (or -P) command-line option will print out all of the program's configuration values, then exit. This can be useful for validating configuration.

--config-file

The --config-file (or -c) command-line option is used to specify a specific configuration file, or specify that no configuration file should be used. See here for more details.