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CLI Overview

The ev CLI lets you manage secrets from any terminal. All encryption and decryption happens locally — the server only ever sees ciphertext.

Commands

Global flags

Environment variables

Config file

The CLI stores your session token at ~/.enver/config.json. This file is shared with the VS Code extension, so logging in once works across both tools.

Project config

Running ev init creates a .ev.json in the current directory:
Commands like ev push and ev pull read this file to know which project and environment to target.