Addendum: For the first option, you'll probably tractably want to do this: alias tpass="PASSWORD_STORE_GIT=$HOME/.password-store PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=$HOME/.password-store/Team pass" http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/diff/src/password-store.sh?id=05a219587336d51203196f5f809d1c5d9d93af7c