From 3ebefe77c4119b562c33364edf8e6404aa1d78e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Badart <badart_william@bah.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:37:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Option to specify config file with environment variable

---
 yamllint/cli.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yamllint/cli.py b/yamllint/cli.py
index e99fd2c..ad54b44 100644
--- a/yamllint/cli.py
+++ b/yamllint/cli.py
@@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ def run(argv=None):
 
     args = parser.parse_args(argv)
 
+    if 'YAMLLINTRC' in os.environ:
+        user_global_config = os.path.expanduser(os.environ['YAMLLINTRC'])
     # User-global config is supposed to be in ~/.config/yamllint/config
-    if 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' in os.environ:
+    elif 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' in os.environ:
         user_global_config = os.path.join(
             os.environ['XDG_CONFIG_HOME'], 'yamllint', 'config')
     else: