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Storing sensitive environment variables
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I keep my dot files public, I of course don't want to have my credentials stored in those dotfiles.

To call applications which require credentials to be set as env vars I have the following setup.

Create a file called ~/.run_with_creds with all the secret credentials after an env statement which then calls the input parameters:

env TRELLO_DEVELOPER_PUBLIC_KEY=xxx \
    TRELLO_MEMBER_TOKEN=yyy \
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=987 \
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=123 \
    $@

For commands that require those credentials, I alias the command to first source that file before running the command.

alias trello=‘. ~/.run_with_creds trello’

.run_with_creds will then execute the command with the credentials set and pass any additional arguments.

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