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It occurs to me that having to type the English version of the numbers would probably work in this scenario.

   s3-shutdown -c "one hundred fifty"

But something simpler like a --emergency flag or the more whimsical --shutitdownshutitalldown

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Facebook uses a `--clowntown` flag to let people do things without normal checks. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...

I also rather like their intentionally verbose and scary parameter for generating arbitrary HTML in React: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/dom-elements.html#dang...

I think the biggest problem with flags like --emergency is if they end up in daily use, such as git --force. Then, they are both sudo-level AND used without a lot of though.

I was in fact thinking of the --force problem which is why I went another way.

Maybe more like --force-with-lease

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