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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-7367) spark-submit CLI --help -h overrides the application arguments

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7367?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15145490#comment-15145490 ] 

bimal tandel commented on SPARK-7367:
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I had a same problem today and I wrote the patch for it. I am creating a pull request.

Based on my analysis there is an unintended consequences of printing help if --help is the only argument passed.

example
spark-submit --verbose --help wont print help anymore.

Instead it prints this,
spark-submit --verbose --help
Error: Must specify a primary resource (JAR or Python or R file)
Run with --help for usage help or --verbose for debug output


> spark-submit CLI --help -h overrides the application arguments
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-7367
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7367
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Spark Submit
>            Reporter: Gianmario Spacagna
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The spark-submit script will parse the --help argument even if is provided as application argument.
> E.g. 
> spark-submit --master local[*] --driver-memory 4G --class bar.foo.MyClass /MyLocalJAR.jar --help
> or
> spark-submit --master local[*] --driver-memory 4G --class bar.foo.MyClass /MyLocalJAR.jar -h
> If my application is using a parsing library, such as Scallop, then it will never be able to run the application with --help as argument.
> I think the spark-submit script should only print the help message when is provided as single argument like this:
> spark-submit --help
> or it should provide a separator for trailing arguments:
> spark-submit --master local[*] --driver-memory 4G --class bar.foo.MyClass /MyLocalJAR.jar -- --help --arg1 --arg2



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