I can't believe no one here (currently) has mentioned this ... but IMO in an ideal world, the issue of too many utility scripts means that "your system" (whatev

I can't believe no one here (currently) has mentioned this ... but IMO in an ideal world, the issue of too many utility scripts means that "your system" (whatever that means to you) is lacking. This leads to users/administrators needing to find ways around the system to get what they need. The (idealistic) answer, is that when a given script finds more than a few users, or even gets used more than a handful of times ... it should be incorporated into, and formalized, in the system. Make an admin panel/portal/dashboard, put a UI in front of the script for any variables, and make it so that this function doesn't require cryptic institutional knowledge to execute.