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diff --git a/hacking/ansible-profile.py b/hacking/ansible-profile.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import cProfile
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
+
+target = sys.argv.pop(1)
+myclass = "%sCLI" % target.capitalize()
+module_name = f'ansible.cli.{target}'
+
+try:
+    # define cli
+    mycli = getattr(__import__(module_name, fromlist=[myclass]), myclass)
+except ImportError as e:
+    if module_name in e.msg:
+        raise Exception("Ansible sub-program not implemented: %s" % target) from None
+    else:
+        raise
+
+try:
+    args = [to_text(a, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for a in sys.argv]
+except UnicodeError:
+    sys.stderr.write(u"The full traceback was:\n\n%s" % to_text(traceback.format_exc()))
+    sys.exit(u'Command line args are parsable to utf-8')
+
+# init cli
+cli = mycli(args)
+
+print(cli.__class__.version_info(gitinfo=True))
+
+# parse args
+cli.parse()
+
+# run
+cProfile.run('cli.run()')