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Prints an item’s surroundings — id, title, kind, tags, and the fields that are not secret.

Usage

Section titled “Usage”
Terminal window
sefy show <REFERENCE>

For a record — a login, a card, an SSH key — every field is printed in the order the kind reads in. Secret ones stay covered, and the line says exactly which get uncovers them:

Terminal window
$ sefy show mail
id:          2
title:       mail
kind:        login
tags:        mail
login:       someone@example.com
password:    <hidden — use sefy get --field password>
url:         https://mail.example.com
totp:        <hidden — sefy otp gives the code>
notes:       recovery in the drawer
Terminal window
$ sefy show visa
id:          3
title:       visa
kind:        card
tags:        money
number:      <hidden — use sefy get --field number>
holder:      A LOVELACE
expiry:      01/29
cvv:         <hidden — use sefy get --field cvv>
pin:         <hidden — use sefy get --field pin>

A field the record does not carry is simply not there: show prints what is stored, so an account with no URL has no url line rather than an empty one.

For a file, the stored name and size:

Terminal window
$ sefy show id_ed25519
id:          3
title:       id_ed25519
kind:        file
tags:        keys
file:        id_ed25519
size:        387 bytes

Notes print in full

Section titled “Notes print in full”

A note has no secret field — the body is the item — so show prints it after a rule:

Terminal window
$ sefy show bank
id:          1
title:       bank
kind:        note
tags:        home, money
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That means show on a note does put its contents in your terminal scrollback. If a note holds something you would rather copy than display, reach for get instead, which puts it on the clipboard.

When there is a history

Section titled “When there is a history”

An item whose contents have changed says how many earlier versions it keeps, and where to look:

Terminal window
$ sefy show mail
id:          2
title:       mail
kind:        login
history:     3 earlier versions (sefy history 2)
login:       someone@example.com
password:    <hidden — use sefy get --field password>

An item never changed has no such line.

Section titled “Related”
  • get — the only way a covered secret comes out
  • ls — the same items, one line each
  • history — the earlier versions of what it holds
  • Versions and compatibility — items this build cannot read