[pass] Patch to skip first line for pass show

[Matthias Beyer]

Disclaimer: I did not test this.

I would find such a feature rather nice! I'm not using the multiline
capabilities yet, though this would lower the barrier for me using
them.

On 13-10-2015 22:54:35, Michael F. Herbst wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> similar to what is described on http://www.passwordstore.org/ I am using
> pass to organise my password records in the scheme
> 
> password
> User: ...
> URL: ...
> Description
> extra info
> ...
> 
> If you have a similarly bad memory than myself, then you probably tend
> to forget all the extra info which you entered in the multiline record
> as well.
> 
> For this reason I cooked up a small patch for pass which adds the extra
> flag -s to the list of arguments show accepts. If "-s" or "--skip" is
> passed, the usual output of gpg is piped to tail -n+2, such that all
> lines *but* the first are printed to stdout.
> In other words this allows one to quickly check the extra info which is
> entered, without displaying the password in the clear to the terminal.
> One disadvantage of this method is that I am loosing the return code of
> gpg, but since I still get stderr from it, I would be ok with it.
> 
> I am using this feature myself quite regularly atm. and I would be happy
> to see your feedback on it.
> 
> Best
> Michael
> 
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Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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