[pass] [feature] dir command, for changing $PASSWORD_STORE_DIR

George Angelopoulos george at usermod.net
Fri Oct 17 17:43:39 CEST 2014


Hey, thnx for the reply.

That's one way to do it. However, I already use *3* different stores,
which is why I'd prefer something scalable.


On 10/17/2014 06:37 PM, Kevin Lyda wrote:
> I'll just point this out as this is what I use for work passwords. It
> works with zsh and makes it so that the wpass command has the same
> completion abilities as the pass command.
>
> # alias for work passwords.
> wpass() {
>   PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=$HOME/.password-store-work pass "$@"
> }
> compdef -e 'PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=$HOME/.password-store-work _pass' wpass
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:31 PM, George Angelopoulos <george at usermod.net> wrote:
>> I've just started using pass with more than one password stores. Running
>> "export PASSWORD_STORE_DIR='./password-store-2'" all the time is of
>> course inconvenient.
>> I've made a "passdir" shell function that does this with less typing:
>>
>> # change the password store directory
>> function passdir {
>>     if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
>>         wdsave=`pwd`
>>         cd `dirname "$0"`
>>         export PASSWORD_STORE_DIR="`pwd`/$1"
>>         cd $wdsave
>>     else
>>         unset PASSWORD_STORE_DIR
>>     fi
>> }
>>
>>
>> This could also be implemented in pass itself, as a command, like "pass
>> dir $dirname". Is there any interest for this? Is it feature creep? I'm
>> ok sticking with my shell function but I thought I'd mention it.
>>
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