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Possible to change the name of gmt.conf and gmt.history? #8618

Open marshallst opened 3 hours ago

marshallst commented 3 hours ago

I was wondering if it is possible in GMT6.5.0 to change the name of gmt.conf and gmt.history to alternative names? I have played with environment variables in Ubuntu Linux (WSL1) and was able to change the location of these files, but not their names. For example export GMT_TMPDIR="data/csv" successfully changes the locations of gmt.conf and gmt.history

I am not sure if these are used by GMT, but I tried the following with no luck export GMT_USER_CONFIG="data/csv/test.conf" export GMT_HISTORY_FILE="data/csv/test.history"

The reason for this is that I am running GMT on a server and I am trying to avoid file collisions when multiple requests come in at nearly the same time, so I would like each instance of GMT to use an auto-generated custom name for gmt.conf and gmt.history.

If you have any tips or suggestions, that would be helpful. -Scott

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