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   in production.
 
 
+### Common arguments
+
+You can pass some command-line arguments to Flatisfy commands, common to all the available commands. These are
+
+* `--help`/`-h` to get some help message about the current command.
+* `--data-dir DIR` to overload the `data_directory` value from config.
+* `--config CONFIG` to use the config file located at `CONFIG`.
+* `--passes [0, 1, 2, 3]` to overload the `passes` value from config.
+* `--max-entries N` to overload the `max_entries` value from config.
+* `-v` to enable verbose output.
+* `-vv` to enable debug output.
+
+
 ## Configuration
 
 List of configuration options: