Use encryption AND templating on the same file?

[albertsj1]

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Describe your question

I've been using yadm for a while and it works great. I use it to manage my files on both my personal and work computers. I've made use of a bootstrap script and yadm templates when there are differences in configuration between my home and work computer for the same files.

I've been managing my aws cli credentials file (~/.aws/credentials) using encryption (yadm encrypt) but I've only been managing my personal credentials. I'd now like to be able to also manage my work computer aws cli credentials using yadm. This means the ~/.aws/credentials file would be different depending on if this is a work computer or home computer.

Is it possible for me to use yadm to have a different contents of a file such as ~/.aws/credentials depending on the computer AND have that file be encrypted using the yadm encrypt command?

[erijo]

To do this, you encrypt both the work and home credentials in separate files with appropriate alternate conditions. Create e.g. ~/.aws/credentials##c.work and ~/.aws/credentials##.c.home and make sure they are matched by a pattern in the encrypt file. Then when yadm alt is run it will create ~/.aws/credentials as a symlink to one of them based on the condition.