Add a command line flag to specify the archive location

[codecircuit]

This would be useful if you do not want to store the matrices in your home directory.

[tcojean]

Thanks for your input on this!

I agree something needs to be done here. My question is how to do it properly. Let's try to collect some options:

• Use a configuration file (e.g. .ssget.conf) in ~/.config/ and/or /etc/default/ssget.conf, or anything else with custom options stored inside such as ARCHIVE_LOCATION=/custom/path/to/archive (could also allow extension to other options if needed);
• Have a command line switch which changes the default location (also creating a configuration file somewhere?) and eventually moves any preexisting archive to the new location at the same time;
• A combination of the two?
• Anything else?

[codecircuit]

As far as I understood it you must first query the matrix IDs like this:

ids=$(ssget -s "[ @name == matrixname ] || [ @name == othermatrixname]")

before you can download them with

for id in $ids; do
  ssget -i $id -e
done

It would be cool if you can just add -e to the first command and all matrices matching the predicate are downloaded. But instead of overloading this issue, maybe we open one issue for each feature?

[tcojean]

Indeed as that is another feature I think another issue on the subject would be better.