unify sawtooth CLI argument behavior

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unify sawtooth CLI argument behavior #2453

Open mtbc opened 1 year ago

mtbc commented 1 year ago

Subcommands vary unexpectedly. E.g.,

for picking up a url set in $SAWTOOTH_HOME/etc/cli.toml instead of --url
parsing option -F as short for --format

then

identity and settings don't do those
block, peer, and state do those.

It's probably worth reviewing the command-line arguments across sawtooth's subcommands to look for easy opportunities for unification. With luck, some of this is a bit of copy-and-paste that can be factored out to a common helper.

mtbc commented 1 year ago

It's worth noting that other Sawtooth CLI like sawset is missing some of these, could be worth looking beyond just sawtooth in unifying.