Confinicky

A simple CLI to manage your environment variables.

Run cfy --help for a current list of useable commands.

Setup Confinicky

First, install the gem:

→ gem install confinicky

Next, setup confinicky to use your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or my personal favorite, an external file just for environment variables that you source in your bash_profile. For example I keep mine in a file called env and then run source env in my .bash_profile.

→ cfy use /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env
Set CONFINICKY_FILE_PATH to /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env

Listing Environment Variables

You can easily see all of your environment variables using cfy list or cfy ls.

→ cfy ls
+-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| CONFINICKY_FILE_PATH  | /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env                                                                        |
| DOCKER_HOST           | tcp://192.168.59.103:2375                                                                               |
| EDITOR                | "subl -w"                                                                                               |
| GEM_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN | '~/bin/dotfiles/gem/gem-public_cert.pem'                                                                |
| GEM_PRIVATE_KEY       | '~/bin/dotfiles/gem/gem-private_key.pem'                                                                |
| INFOPATH              | $INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info                                                                         |
| MANPATH               | $MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man:/usr/local/git/man                                                        |
| NODE_PATH             | /usr/local/lib/node:/usr/local/lib/node_modules                                                         |
| PATH                  | /Users/jim/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/Users/jim/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@global/bin:/Users/jim/.rvm/rubie... |
| PGDATA                | /usr/local/var/postgres                                                                                 |
| PYTHONPATH            | /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH                                                      |
| VCPROMPT_FORMAT       | "[%n:%b](%m%u)"                                                                                         |
+-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Creating / Setting an Environment Variable

You can easily add or adjust an environment variable using cfy set which expects a parameter such as MY_VAR=value.

→ cfy set DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.168.59.103:2375
Successfully set 'DOCKER_HOST=tcp://192.168.59.103:2375'.
Run 'source /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env' or open a new terminal/shell window.

Removing an Environment Variable

You can easily add or adjust an environment variable using cfy remove or cfy rm.

→ cfy remove MY_VAR
Successfully removed 'MY_VAR'.
Open a new terminal/shell window for this change to take affect.

Detecting Duplicate Exports

If your environment files have turned into a junk drawer with PATH getting defined multiple times throughout the file or otherwise, you can get a summary by running cfy duplicates.

→ cfy duplicates
+----------+---+
| PATH     | 7 |
| MANPATH  | 3 |
| INFOPATH | 3 |
+----------+---+
Identified 3 variables with multiple 'export' statements in /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env
Run 'cfy clean' to reduce these statements.

Cleaning Duplicate Exports

You can run cfy clean which replaces multiple export declarations with the actual value of the environment variable.

→ cfy clean
Backup your existing file before continuuing? (y/n)
y
Backup saved to: /Users/jim/bin/dotfiles/bash/env1407782855.bak.tmp
Your file is clean. 3 duplicate statements have been reduced.

Contributing to confinicky

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
Fork the project.
Start a feature/bugfix branch.
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.