Command line syntax to set root directory

[paulhoule]

a problem I'm having now is that when I want to run a q against all of :BaseKB, I have to write a long command line like

haruhi run job -clusterId mediumAwsCluster uniqURISubjects -r 11 s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/a s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/description s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/key s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/keyNs s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/label s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/links s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/name s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/notability s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/notableForPredicate s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/other s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/text s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/webpages s3n://basekb-sandbox/2013-11-10-00-00/uniqURISubjects

The length is bad enough by itself, but between my shell and my terminal program I sometimes have problems editing long command lines, in particular what I see on the screen gets out of sync with what is in the memory buffer so I can end up submitting a command different than what I see on the screen and then the cluster run fails.

I'd rather write something like

haruhi run job -clusterId mediumAwsCluster uniqURISubjects -r 11 -dir s3n://basekb-now/2013-11-10-00-00/sieved/ a description key keyNs links name notability notableForPredicate text webpages -dir s3n://basekb-sandbox/2013-11-10-00-00/ uniqURISubjects

Note that -dir sets a "working directory" for all the paths to the right until another -dir is specified.

This should be built into all commands that take multiple inputs.