What are DOT-files?

How can I use Awk to insert GitHub token into .gitconfig?

• I've seen people using lines like this to pull in their Github token: token = !security find-generic-password -gs \"GitHub API Token\" 2>&1 >/dev/null | awk '/password/ {print $2}' | tr -d \\\"  How can I do I more generic version of this such as: !awk '/GithubToken/ {print $2}' ~/dotfiles/.sec/secret.tmp This does not work but I'd like something similar to pull token from secret.tmp file.  GPG encryption/decryption will be added later too.

• Answer:

  I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but if the token is https://github.com/blog/180-local-github-config, you can use http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config to get or set it: git config github.token (get the token from ~/.gitconfig) git config --global github.token e097e1136dc79bc1149e32a8a6bde5ef (set the token in ~/.gitconfig)