Keyper is a CLI tool for effortlessly managing your environment variables. Save environment variables locally and retrieve them with just one command. Built using only the standard libraries of Go. Keyper is simple, useful, and blazingly fast.

• Installation
• Usage Example
  • Save Environment Variables
  • Retrieve Environment Variables
  • Remove Environment Variables
  • Purge Project and its Variables
  • Pro-Tip
• Contributing
• License

To install Keyper, ensure you have Go installed on your machine. If you haven't installed Go yet, you can follow the official Go installation instructions.

go install github.com/SameerJadav/keyper@latest

This will install a Go binary that automatically binds to your $GOPATH.

Keyper is designed for simplicity. It's a grug brain tool.

Command:

keyper set <project> <key=value> ...

Example:

keyper set my-project DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/mydb DATABASE_AUTH_TOKEN=42069

Saves the specified key-value pairs as environment variables for the given project, overwriting existing variables with the same keys.

Command:

keyper get <project>

Example:

keyper get my-project

Displays the saved environment variables for the specified project.

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/mydb
DATABASE_AUTH_TOKEN=42069

Command:

keyper remove <project> <key> ...

Example:

keyper remove my-project DATABASE_URL

Permanently removes the specified environment variables from the given project.

Command:

keyper purge <project> ...

Example:

keyper purge my-project

Permanently removes the entire project and all its associated environment variables. Use this command with caution.

You can easily export environment variables to a .env file by just redirecting the result of the keyper get command to an .env file.

keyper get my-project > .env

If you'd like to contribute to Keyper, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. I welcome your suggestions and improvements!

Keyper is open-source and available under the MIT License.