Owen, et. al.,

Would everyone agree that new command-line scripts must accept
"--help" (and include relevant help, of course) ?

+1

Should it also be the standard that command-line scripts should not
perform any action unless an argument is passed?

I like this idea. +1 too 

Regards,
Jared

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