{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278#issuecomment-864621099", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278", "id": 864621099, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg2NDYyMTA5OQ==", "user": {"value": 601708, "label": "mcint"}, "created_at": "2021-06-20T22:39:57Z", "updated_at": "2021-06-20T22:39:57Z", "author_association": "CONTRIBUTOR", "body": "Fair. I looked into it, it looks like it could be done, but it would be _a bit ugly_. I can upload and link a gist of my exploration. **Click** can parse a first argument while still recognizing it as a sub-command keyword. From there, the program could:\r\n1. ignore it preemptively if it matches a sub-command\r\n2. and/or check if a (db) file exists at the path.\r\n\r\nIt would then also need to set a shared db argument variable.\r\n\r\nClick also makes it easy to parse arguments from environment variables.  If you're amenable, I may submit a patch for only that, which would update each sub-command to check for a DB/SQLITE_UTILS_DB environment variable. The goal would be usage that looks like: `DB=./convenient.db sqlite-utils [operation] [args]`", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 923697888, "label": "Support db as first parameter before subcommand, or as environment variable"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278#issuecomment-864128489", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278", "id": 864128489, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg2NDEyODQ4OQ==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-06-18T15:46:24Z", "updated_at": "2021-06-18T15:46:24Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "A workaround could be to define a bash or zsh alias of some sort.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 1, \"+1\": 1, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 923697888, "label": "Support db as first parameter before subcommand, or as environment variable"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278#issuecomment-864126781", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/278", "id": 864126781, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg2NDEyNjc4MQ==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-06-18T15:43:19Z", "updated_at": "2021-06-18T15:43:19Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "I don't think it's possible to do this without breaking backwards compatibility, unfortunately.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 923697888, "label": "Support db as first parameter before subcommand, or as environment variable"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}