How to implement the --verbose or -v option into a script?

Question

I know the --verbose or -v from several tools and I\'d like to implement this into some of my own scripts and tools.

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Answer 1

What I do in my scripts is check at runtime if the 'verbose' option is set, and then set my logging level to debug. If it's not set, I set it to info. This way you don't have 'if verbose' checks all over your code.