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ialbert / bio

Making bioinformatics fun again
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Download data location #23

Closed cmfield closed 2 years ago

cmfield commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I have made your neat tool available on our software module system, however, I wondered if there was a way to point the program at a centrally downloaded set of data (the data procured by --download), rather than each user downloading it themselves?

Thanks!

ialbert commented 2 years ago

I will add the ability to allow overriding the default location (currently set to ~/.bio)

Currently, the simplest workaround would be to link another, already prepopulated directory as .bio in the home directory and that would suffice

for example: 

# Moving working .bio directory to a public location
mv ~/.bio  /export/public/bio

# Change access right to files (if those are not set correctly)
chmod -R 755  /export/public/bio

# Each user can then link the public directory as local ~/.bio
ln -s /export/public/bio  ~/.bio
ialbert commented 2 years ago

you can now set the BIO_DIR environment variable to customize the location of the data directory

export BIO_DIR=/path/goes/here

included version 1.3.4

cmfield commented 2 years ago

Amazing, thanks so much!