shikaan
keydex
Go

πŸ”’ Terminal based password manager for KeePass databases.

Last updated Jun 19, 2026
95
Stars
2
Forks
2
Issues
0
Stars/day
Attention Score
26
Language breakdown
Go 99.5%
Makefile 0.5%
Go Template 0.0%
β–Έ Files click to expand
README

logo

keydex

Terminal based password manager for KeePass databases.

screenshot

⚑️ Quick start

Installation

MacOS and Linux

curl -s https://shikaan.github.io/sup/install | REPO=shikaan/keydex sh -

or

wget -q https://shikaan.github.io/sup/install -O- | REPO=shikaan/keydex sh -

Windows and manual instructions

Head to the releases page and download the executable for your system and architecture.

Usage

You can get started simply opening your database.

# opens the interactive editor
keydex open ~/example.kdbx

However, the most common use case for keydex is copying a password to your clipboard.

# copies password from the referenced entry (or stdinput)
keydex copy ~/example.kdbx /example/group/entry

Using environment variables and aliases you can save a couple of keystrokes

# ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
export KEYDEXPASSPHRASE=${MYSECRET_PHRASE}
export KEYDEX_DATABASE=~/example.kdbx

alias entry-pwd="keydex copy /example/group/entry"

and then you can use it like

$ entry-pwd

Opening a given entry and listing accept environment variables too.

# opens the editor at the given location
keydex open /example/group/entry

lists all the entries in the database

keydex list

Interoperability

keydex was designed to integrate in your existing workflow: it accepts inputs from stdin and can be piped to your existing toolchain.

For example, here's an of how you can use it to browse entries with fzf

# copy entry's password selected with fzf to the clipboard
keydex list | fzf | keydex copy

πŸ“„ Documentation

More detailed documentation can be found here.

πŸ€“ Contributing

Have a look through existing Issues and Pull Requests that you could help with. If you'd like to request a feature or report a bug, please create a GitHub Issue.

License

MIT

πŸ”— More in this category

Β© 2026 GitRepoTrend Β· shikaan/keydex Β· Updated daily from GitHub