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direnv.md

direnv cheat sheet

direnv should be installed and used to :

  • Enhance security, to avoid wide visibility of all secrets available through environment variables.
    • for example in dumps for third party debug
  • have less environment variables, the right variables at the right places

nixos configuration

as simple as :

programs.direnv.enable = true;
programs.direnv.silent = false;

usage

.envrc files to be added in the directory at the right places

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