Added by Michael Schem almost 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.
Description
As documented https://suricata-update.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.0/update.html#cmdoption-merged
% suricata-update --merged="out.rules"
usage: suricata-update [-h] <command> ...
suricata-update: error: unrecognized arguments: --merged=out.rules
If this features is added, it would be awesome if you could specify the path and the filename as that argument, which would mean --output wouldn't be needed.
As merged is the default we should probably remove this command line option. There has been requests for a flag to set the output filename which maybe we should consider. I do worry that as rulesets start to use datasets (I hope they do) and other external files this will lead to confusion as someone may set the output filename to be /over/here/my.rules, but the associated files end up /somewhere/over/here/where/the/default/output/directory is.
Related issue: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2659
Merged as part of 1.2.1 by removing this option from the documentation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata-update/pull/271
If the option of specifying a filename is still desired, please followup on on issue #2659.