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Currently golangci-lint custom write the resulting custom binary to

1. The destination and name specified in .custom-gcl.yml or equivalent.
2. ./custom-gcl by default.

When building a generic harness for custom linters — one where users bring their own .custom-gci.yml files — I want to write a script that builds a custom linter and then invokes it, regardless of the destination and name specified in YAML.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want to be able to specify an output location with a command-line argument. For example, I'd like to run

$ golangci-lint custom -v -o ./freshly-built-linter
$ ./freshly-built-linter run

This can behave analagously to the -o output argument on go build: if present, override the settings in YAML.

usage: go build [-o output] [build flags] [packages]

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Requiring an implicit correspondence between arguments to my program and the contents (name, destination) of a user's .custom-gcl.yml file.
• Parsing the .custom-gcl.yml files in my scripts to extract name and destination, to recreate the path to the build target.

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