docs: Document default for CLI --data

[marcelstoer]

Fixes Issue

n/a

Description of Change

It took me a while to figure out what the default data dir for the CLI app is.

Have test cases been added to cover the new functionality?

n/a

[jeremylong]

This is not always correct. The path to the data directory is relative to the location of the install directory:

https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/blob/361e255562af79fc5326151e9721d9ee3029bf6d/cli/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/App.java#L451-L463C73

https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck/blob/361e255562af79fc5326151e9721d9ee3029bf6d/cli/src/main/conf/unixBinTemplate#L18

I could unzip the CLI anywhere on the system - it will have:

bin/dependency-check.sh

When executed the data directory would be generated right next to the bin directory:

bin/dependency-check.sh
data/

[marcelstoer]

Hhmm...I see. The fact that my data dir is /usr/local/var/dependencycheck is due to the fact that I installed it with brew?

❯ which dependency-check
/usr/local/bin/dependency-check
❯ ls -al /usr/local/bin/dependency-check
lrwxr-xr-x  1 marcelstoer  admin  53 Jan  4 15:22 /usr/local/bin/dependency-check -> ../Cellar/dependency-check/9.0.7/bin/dependency-check

[jeremylong]

Correct

[marcelstoer]

Shall I update the PR and try to summarize what I learned through these comments? Or did you not document the defaults on purpose in which case I'll close it.

[jeremylong]

Please, update the PR. The documentation can always improve and with 9.x more people will lokely need to figure out where the default location is.

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[jeremylong]

Thanks!