Rclone config different path

Hello all,

Is is possible to use rclone with config path pointing to a different location not default ‘\config\rclone.config’
Example

rcone config=c:\settings\customrclone.cfg sync source: destination:

I need something like this.

Thank you

–config string Config file. (default “/home/ncw/.rclone.conf”)

So would it be like

Rclone --config c:\custom\rclone\myconfig.config

Interested as well…
I’ve been trying to change the config path for cron jobs on linux - tried:
sudo rclone --config="path/to/file/rclone.conf"

but doesn’t work.
Ideas?

Use an absolute path “/path/to/config”

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Will this: rclone --config=path/to/file/

Change the location of my rclone. config permanently ?

No.
If you don’t want to supply the --config argument every time, you need to set the RCLONE_CONFIG environment variable.

Example from another thread:

Usually in your shell profile as mine is in my .bashrc

# RClone Config file
RCLONE_CONFIG=/data/rclone/rclone.conf
export RCLONE_CONFIG
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I added the lines to my .bashrc it now looks like this:

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login interactive shells.
export PATH=\
/bin:\
/sbin:\
/usr/bin:\
/usr/sbin:\
/usr/bin/X11:\
/usr/local/bin

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then

if [ "$BASH" ]; then
export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
else
  if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then 
export PS1='# '
  else
export PS1='$ '
  fi
fi

export USER=`id -un`
export LOGNAME=$USER
export HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
export HISTSIZE=1000
export HISTFILESIZE=1000
export PAGER='/bin/more '
export EDITOR='/bin/vi'
export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
export DMALLOC_OPTIONS=debug=0x34f47d83,inter=100,log=logfile
export LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:';

### Some aliases
alias ps2='ps facux '
alias ps1='ps faxo "%U %t %p %a" '
alias af='ps af'
alias cls='clear'
alias ll='/bin/ls -laFh'
alias ls='/bin/ls -F'
alias df='df -h'
alias indent='indent -bad -bap -bbo -nbc -br -brs -c33 -cd33 -ncdb -ce -ci4 -cli0 -cp33 -cs -d0 -di1 -nfc1 -nfca -hnl -i4 -ip0 -l75 -lp -npcs -npsl -nsc -nsob -nss -ts4 '
#alias bc='bc -l'
alias minicom='minicom -c on'
alias calc='calc -Cd '
alias bc='calc -Cd '
fi;

# RClone Config file
RCLONE_CONFIG=/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/RCloneCache/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
export RCLONE_CONFIG

Is that everything that I need to do or do I need to change something else elsewhere ?

That should be enough.