NAME

glab-config-path - Print the location of the global configuration file.

SYNOPSIS

glab config path [flags]

DESCRIPTION

Print where glab reads and writes its global configuration. The location depends on the platform and whether a legacy configuration directory exists, so use this command instead of hard-coding a path.

The command prints the path even if the file does not exist yet, so it is safe to run before the first glab auth login.

Use --dir to print the parent directory. Grant write access to that directory rather than to config.yml alone, because glab writes a temporary file in that directory first and then replaces config.yml with it.

Repository-local settings live in the repository's .git/glab-cli/config.yml and this command does not report them.

If no user configuration file exists, glab falls back to a read-only system-wide one. This command always reports the user location.

Your own configuration file must not be readable by anyone else, so it needs mode 600. A system-wide one, in a directory listed in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, is read whatever its read permissions, but is refused if it is writable by group or others.

OPTIONS

--dir[=false] Print the configuration directory instead of the configuration file.

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

-h, --help[=false] Show help for this command.

EXAMPLE

# Print the path to the global configuration file
glab config path
# Print the directory that holds the configuration file
glab config path --dir
# Open the configuration file in an editor
$EDITOR "$(glab config path)"

SEE ALSO

glab-config(1)