O, Ye who are faithful, I beseech thee aid this lowly initiate... For some reason I don not understand, I get an 'unitialized value' warning everywhere $args is used...even when I pass in arguments. I'm sure is some simple thing I've overlooked, but no idea what that simple thing is. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use Getopt::Std;
use Getopt::Long;

GetOptions( "help" => \$help,
            "file=s"  => \$file,
            "database=s" => \$database,

            "user=s" => \$user,
            "password=s" => \$password);

#-h ARG, -f ARG, -d ARG, -u ARG, -p ARG sets $args{h},sets $args{f}, s
+ets $args{d}, sets $args{u}, sets $args{p}

getopts("hf:d:u:p:", \%args);

if ($args>=2){
    $help=$args{h};
    $file=$args{f};
    $database=$args{d};
    $user=$args{u};
    $password=$args{p};

}elsif ($help){
    print "rip_sched -h/--help -f/--file datafile -d/--database databa
+se -u/--user database-user -p/--password database-password\n";
    exit 0;
}

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