Specify auth token as an argument

[hermanocabral]

Howdy,

What about having the option to specify the auth token as an argument?

Something like:
dropboxcli put file_here destination_here -v -token token_here

[diwakergupta]

@hermanocabral sure, that's relatively easy to add (and in fact earlier versions used to have this capability). What would you do this with capability though? The only use-case I can think of is making it easier to debug/test using your own app tokens.

[hermanocabral]

Hey!

Well, the main use case would be to use dbxcli in scripts and stuff like that. Right now I'm using Azure Blob storage + AzCopy (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-use-azcopy) but using Dropbox would be so much easier IF I could simply pass an auth token in the command line.

[slzarate]

@hermanocabral: I currently use dbxcli in a script. I've found that, somehow, the following seems to work:
echo "$auth_code" | /dbxcli version && echo "$auth_code"

If you remove one of the echoes it no longer works (I think; it's been a while since I worked on this). But that should work.

ETA: I do agree, though -- a defined way to do this would be great!