An "index" to speed up conten search for pass - the standard unix password store. See passwordstore for more info.
pass‐index‐ A pass(1) extension for speeding up search in all Fields.
`pass index [ COMMAND ] [ OPTIONS ]... [ ARGS ]...`
pass‐index is an extension for Password Store that will create and manage an (encrypted) index file to make searches for all fields faster. It speeds up pass grep by many times. It will not put passwords themselves into the index (so you cannot search for a password), but all additional metadata (=lines) in entries.
first you should call pass index create in order to create the search index file. This file is located in the passwordstore directory (usually $HOME/.password-store) and is named .index.gpg. Pass create then runs through all password entries, strips the first line (the password) and adds this info together with the filename in the index file. When this is done, the index file is encrypted.
Of course, you need to update the index file when you do changes to your passwords. Hence, you cann create an alias pass=pass index which would then keep your index up to date, even when you do some changes using pass edit etc.
Usually, pass‐index will pass on all commands given to pass itself (so you can use it in conjunction with an alias pass = pass index). But you can also call it directly:
update: recreate the index file, you can also use create or recreatefind [GREP PATTERN]: find will list all matching entries in password store for the given term.grep [GREP PATTERN]: similar to find, it will return all matching files, but includ‐ ing the lines matching (see grep for details)insert | mv | rm | edit [NAME]: This will call the corresponding pass command but also updates the index file. Attention: if you create entries directly, you need to run pass index recreat once in a while in order to update the index. Otherwise you will get wrong results.help: gives a little help
pass index find "company"
returns a list of matching entries, that contain the text "company". The search is case insensitive! Using grep instead of find would also return the matching content.
pass index find "^Url: https://www.caluga.de.*"
returns a list of all entries, which do have a Field Url, the content of which is a caluga url. The search is case insensitive!
pass index mv oldPwd newPwd
renames an entry and also updates the index for it
pass index ANYTHING ELSE
will be passed to pass itself. This way, you can easily create an alias for pass, that automatically keeps your index in sync.