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japanuspustoday at 7:53 AM0 repliesview on HN

It should be trivial to combine ephemeral options with file name options, which seems like it would be the best of both world.

With some agreement on mapping (maybe just `%HH` for anything outside `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ -`), this could be completely standardized and made part of standard library argument parsers.

I could see a bunch of my utility scripts replaced with a python script and a `uv` shebang if this was in argparse.