CSource

Source env vars from a file encrypted with ccrypt.

Only works on linux, as far as I can tell.

How to use

Write your environment variables into a .env file as normal:

export EXAMPLE=test

Encrypt the file with ccrypt:

cccrypt example.env

when you want to load the variables into your current shell, run

. csource example.env.cpt

The environment variables you have configured are now loaded into your shell, but the file is still encrypted.

The example here has a decryption key of test

Motivation

I often use environment variables to store secrets. But I do not want to leave these secrets un encrypted on disk.

csource is an extremely simple way to keep the file of environment variables encrypted, while making it fairly easy to use them in development work.

Installation

You can make it easy to run csource by adding it to your $PATH or creating a symbolic link to it in $HOME/.local/bin.

How it works

The whole thing is:

source <(ccat $1)

A better version?

I bet there are much better ways to do this. If you come across this project and know of something better, let me know!

Also we're sourcing twice - is that necessary?