resolves #15

Author: LD250

README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jenkins [-h] [--host jenkins-url] [--username username]
          {jobs,queue,building,start,info,set_branch,stop,console} ...
 ```
 
-Server URL, Username and password may be specified either by the command line arguments or in configuration file **(.jenkins-cli)**. Command line arguments has the highest priority, after that the **.jenkins-cli** file from current folder is taking into account. If there is no.jenkins-cli file in current folder, settings will be read from **.jenkins-cli** from the program folder
+Server URL, Username and password may be specified either by the command line arguments or in configuration file **(.jenkins-cli)**. Command line arguments has the highest priority, after that the **.jenkins-cli** file from current folder is taking into account. If there is no.jenkins-cli file in current folder, settings will be read from **.jenkins-cli** from the home folder
 
 # Optional arguments:
 ```bash

jenkins_cli/__init__.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ def main():
                                      description='Server URL, Username and password may be specified either by the command line arguments '
                                                  'or in configuration file (.jenkins-cli). Command line arguments has the highest priority, '
                                                  'after that the .jenkins-cli file from current folder is taking into account. If there is no'
-                                                 '.jenkins-cli file in current folder, setiings will be read from .jenkins-cli from the program'
+                                                 '.jenkins-cli file in current folder, setiings will be read from .jenkins-cli from the home'
                                                  'folder')
     parser.add_argument('--host', metavar='jenkins-url', help='Jenkins Server Url', default=None)
     parser.add_argument('--username', metavar='username', help='Jenkins Username', default=None)

jenkins_cli/cli.py

@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ def read_settings_from_file(cls):
             current_folder = os.getcwd()
             filename = "%s/%s" % (current_folder, cls.SETTINGS_FILE_NAME)
             if not os.path.exists(filename):
-                program_folder = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
-                filename = "%s/%s" % (program_folder, cls.SETTINGS_FILE_NAME)
+                home_folder = os.path.expanduser("~")
+                filename = "%s/%s" % (home_folder, cls.SETTINGS_FILE_NAME)
+                if not os.path.exists(filename):
+                    raise CliException('.jenkins-cli file not found.')
             f = open(filename, 'r')
             jenkins_settings = f.read()
         except Exception as e: