@EdGlue You must use the escape mecanisms of your shell to escape the special characters.
With bash or zsh (Linux/Mac) use single quotes and escape those single quote with a backslash.
Example with password abc'def :
$ op item edit some-item 'abc'\''def'
I need to programmatically update the password for multiple entries in my vault.
\n\nThis here works nicely:
\n\nop item edit some-item \"password=noneofyourbusiness\"
but it has 2 problems:
\n\nThe only way I see:
\n\n
op item get --format=jsonecho {} | base64 --decode | op item edit some-item where {} would contain that base64 encoded jsonI have done similar things in the past, but I hope: there is an easier way to achieve the same?
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\n\nThis here works nicely:
\n\nop item edit some-item \"password=noneofyourbusiness\"
but it has 2 problems:
\n\nThe only way I see:
\n\nop item get --format=jsonecho {} | base64 --decode | op item edit some-item where {} would contain that base64 encoded jsonI have done similar things in the past, but I hope: there is an easier way to achieve the same?
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\n\nWith bash or zsh (Linux/Mac) use single quotes and escape those single quote with a backslash.
\n\nExample with password abc'def :
\n\n
\n$ op item edit some-item 'abc'\\''def'
\n
@EdGlue You must use the escape mecanisms of your shell to escape the special characters.
\n\nWith bash or zsh (Linux/Mac) use single quotes and escape those single quote with a backslash.
\n\nExample with password abc'def :
\n\n
\n$ op item edit some-item 'abc'\\''def'
\n