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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+'''
+This checks if all command line args are documented.
+Return value is 0 to indicate no error.
+
+Author: @MarcoFalke
+'''
+
+from subprocess import check_output
+import re
+import sys
+
+FOLDER_GREP = 'src'
+FOLDER_TEST = 'src/test/'
+REGEX_ARG = '(?:ForceSet|SoftSet|Get|Is)(?:Bool)?Args?(?:Set)?\("(-[^"]+)"'
+REGEX_DOC = 'AddArg\("(-[^"=]+?)(?:=|")'
+CMD_ROOT_DIR = '`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`/{}'.format(FOLDER_GREP)
+CMD_GREP_ARGS = r"git grep --perl-regexp '{}' -- {} ':(exclude){}'".format(REGEX_ARG, CMD_ROOT_DIR, FOLDER_TEST)
+CMD_GREP_DOCS = r"git grep --perl-regexp '{}' {}".format(REGEX_DOC, CMD_ROOT_DIR)
+# list unsupported, deprecated and duplicate args as they need no documentation
+SET_DOC_OPTIONAL = set(['-rpcssl', '-benchmark', '-h', '-help', '-socks', '-tor', '-debugnet', '-whitelistalwaysrelay', '-prematurewitness', '-walletprematurewitness', '-promiscuousmempoolflags', '-blockminsize', '-dbcrashratio', '-forcecompactdb', '-usehd'])
+
+
+def main():
+    used = check_output(CMD_GREP_ARGS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True)
+    docd = check_output(CMD_GREP_DOCS, shell=True, universal_newlines=True)
+
+    args_used = set(re.findall(re.compile(REGEX_ARG), used))
+    args_docd = set(re.findall(re.compile(REGEX_DOC), docd)).union(SET_DOC_OPTIONAL)
+    args_need_doc = args_used.difference(args_docd)
+    args_unknown = args_docd.difference(args_used)
+
+    print("Args used        : {}".format(len(args_used)))
+    print("Args documented  : {}".format(len(args_docd)))
+    print("Args undocumented: {}".format(len(args_need_doc)))
+    print(args_need_doc)
+    print("Args unknown     : {}".format(len(args_unknown)))
+    print(args_unknown)
+
+    sys.exit(len(args_need_doc))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()