Push and Pull

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Push and pull your secrets to and from Shelve.

The push and pull commands enable you to send your secrets to Shelve and retrieve them back to your local machine. This is the essential feature of Shelve CLI, as it lets you securely store your secrets in Shelve and access them from your local machine, while also allowing you to share them with your team.

Push

The push command allows you to send your secrets to Shelve. When you run the push command, you will be prompted to enter the environment name where you want to store your secrets.

shelve push

Pull

The pull command allows you to retrieve your secrets from Shelve. When you run the pull command, you will be prompted to enter the environment name from which you want to retrieve your secrets.

shelve pull

Options

env

string

Specify the environment to which you want to push or pull the variables.

You can configure a default environment in your shelve.json file to bypass the env prompt:

{
  "defaultEnv": "development",
  "slug": "shelve"
}