Load settings from the command line.

def get_args():
        """
        Load settings from the command line.
        """

        parser = build_parser()
        args = vars(parser.parse_args())

        # Overwrite the deprecated "-l" option into the link variable
        if args['link_deprecated'] and args['link'] is None:
            args['link'] = args['link_deprecated']
        args.pop('link_deprecated', None)

        # Filter out argument values that weren't supplied
        return {key: val for key, val in args.items() if val is not None}