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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 credential, the password and TOTP secret stay covered, and the output says where to get them:

Terminal window
$ sefy show mail
id:       2
title:    mail
kind:     credential
tags:     mail
login:    someone@example.com
password: <hidden — use sefy get>
url:      https://mail.example.com
totp:     <hidden — use sefy get --field totp>
notes:    recovery in the drawer

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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code 4815

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.

Section titled “Related”
  • get — the only way a covered secret comes out
  • ls — the same items, one line each