[TI-45] rc:path/to/db override about timewarrior HOT 10 CLOSED

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Created: 2016-09-07T04:46:42Z
Modified: 2016-10-02T04:37:42Z

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Paul Beckingham on 2016-09-07T11:45:35Z says:

You suggest this:

$ timew rc:/path/here ...

It already supports:

$ TASKWARRIORDB=/path/here timew ...

Do we need two ways to do this?

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T03:20:05Z says:

Short answer: yes

I would like to be able to run multiple concurrent $TIMEWARRIORDBs, using syntax similar to taskwarrior.
Imagine, as example use-cases, tracking work-time and mood (how you're feeling at different times the day) in parallel instances,
with aliases like this;

alias work='timew rc:~/.timewarrior/work/timewarrior.cfg $*'
alias mood='timew rc:~/.timewarrior/mood/timewarrior.cfg $*'

where ../work/ and ../mood/ directories, each contain alternate timewarrior.cfg, data, extensions and log files,

I've tried six ways from Sunday to pull that off with the currently supported environment varables, but it ain't working, so unless you can suggest an viable alternative, then yes, we need another way to do this.

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T03:22:51Z says:

and I guess that also means a way to set TIMEWARRIORDB as a timewarrior.cfg variable.

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T04:18:04Z says:

And perhaps I'm comparing apples to oranges here. In taskwarrior, the rc:~/path/taskrc refers to a single configuration file, where $TIMEWARRIORDB is (I'm guessing here) a reference to a DB, or set of files. I'm ok wit dat, So My aliases could point to folders, not config files, as in;

alias work='timew rc:~/.timewarrior/work/ $*'
alias mood='timew rc:~/.timewarrior/mood/ $*'

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Paul Beckingham on 2016-10-02T04:20:32Z says:

Timewarrior does not share syntax with Taskwarrior. But there is nothing stopping you from using environment variables in an alias:

$ alias timbuktu='TZ=Africa/Timbuktu date'
$ alias santiago='TZ=America/Santiago date'
$ alias tokyo='TZ='Asia/Tokyo date'
$ timbuktu
Sun Oct  2 04:20:41 GMT 2016
$ santiago
Sun Oct  2 01:20:46 CLST 2016
$ tokyo
Sun Oct  2 13:20:47 JST 2016

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T04:29:28Z says:

That's encouraging.. . getting warmer.. now with alias;

alias mood='TIMEWARRIORDB=~/.timewarrior/mood/timewarrior.cfg timew $*'

I get

Database is not readable at '/home/djp/.timewarrior/mood/timewarrior.cfg'

although the IS a mood dir and a copy of the cfg file.

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T04:32:51Z says:

GOT IT!

alias mood='TIMEWARRIORDB=~/.timewarrior/mood/ timew $*'

does the deed!

thanks!

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Paul Beckingham on 2016-10-02T04:33:56Z says:

Don't point TIMEWARRIORDB at a file, point it at the directory $HOME/.timewarrior.

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David Patrick on 2016-10-02T04:34:32Z says:

not broken, but could be included as an example in docs

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