diff --git a/scripts/projects.py b/scripts/projects.py
index f4c743b1..f111ebd3 100644
--- a/scripts/projects.py
+++ b/scripts/projects.py
@@ -152,8 +152,22 @@ def get_ldflags(names):
         return r[1::]
     return ''
 
+def commands():
+    f = open(sys.argv[0])
+    cmds = []
+    for line in f:
+        debug("checking line ", line)
+        rr = re.findall('^def  *cmd_([a-z0-9_]+).*', line)
+        if len(rr):
+            cmds.append(rr[0].replace('_', '-'))
+    f.close()
+    return ' '.join(cmds)
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------- commands
 
+def cmd_commands(args_):
+    print(commands())
+
 def cmd_test(args_):
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Test')
     parser.add_argument('blah', default='', help='The blah argument')
@@ -261,7 +275,8 @@ top_name = None
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Project metadata evaluation')
 parser.add_argument('cmd', default='', help='Command')
-parser.add_argument('--debug', '-d', nargs='?', const=True, default=False, help='Output debug information to stderr')
+parser.add_argument('--debug', '-d', action='store_true',
+    default=False, help='Output debug information to stderr')
 parser.add_argument('--topdir', '-t', nargs='?', help='Project Path')
 parser.add_argument('--prefix', '-p', nargs='?', default = expanduser("~") +
     '/local/src/cvs.stable/proj', help='Projects Path Prefix')