CLI interface

[Louis-Bertrand Varin]

Hey guys!

Glad to see this project being maintained! I've been using KeePassX for a while now and was lacking a crucial feature : merging of 2 databases! It is now merged into this fork, which leads me to giving KeePassXC a try!

I was thinking about maybe adding a CLI interface to KeePassXC. This is something that other tools already do (http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/ for example, even though it deals with the db directly), but adding such an interface to KeePassXC might leverage the existing codebase.

What do you think?

[Janek Bevendorff]

A CLI is not on the list for the next release (or the one after that), but nothing that would be generally out of scope for this project. I don't know the code base of kpcli and don't know if we can reuse the code (I doubt it), but a potential KeePassXC CLI could maybe provide a similar API.

So I can't promise anything, but a CLI is definitely possible.

[droidmonkey]

Perhaps it is best to keep that functionality to kpcli. I think that would add a significant overhead to the KeePassXC codebase that doesn't directly support our mission (cross-platform GUI interface).

Were your intentions to have a cross-platform CLI?

[Louis-Bertrand Varin]

Ideally yeah, but it might be difficult after looking into it. My main use case was to automate (via bash scripts) the merging / synchronization of multiple copies of a database file, so a CLI for this is probably overkill.

Thanks!