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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#
+# Check that all RPC help texts are generated by RPCHelpMan.
+
+export LC_ALL=C
+
+EXIT_CODE=0
+
+# Assume that all multiline strings passed into a runtime_error are help texts.
+# This is potentially fragile, but the linter is only temporary and can safely
+# be removed early 2019.
+
+non_autogenerated_help=$(grep --perl-regexp --null-data --only-matching 'runtime_error\(\n\s*".*\\n"\n' $(git ls-files -- "*.cpp"))
+if [[ ${non_autogenerated_help} != "" ]]; then
+    echo "Must use RPCHelpMan to generate the help for the following RPC methods:"
+    echo "${non_autogenerated_help}"
+    echo
+    EXIT_CODE=1
+fi
+exit ${EXIT_CODE}