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Bash - clone git repository providing username and password directly when running (as command option or in URL)
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In this short article, we would like to show how to clone git repository providing username and password when running using Bash.
Quick solution:
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git clone https://username:password@github.com/username/repository.gitHint: do not forget to encode
usernameandpasswordwhen they contains URLs special characters.
password is optional in URL syntax, so by using:
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git clone https://username@github.com/username/repository.gitwe will be asked to type password while command is executed.
In practice username and password should be encoded. In this section you can find JavaScript's encodeURIComponent() function equivalent.
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function create_utf8_code() {4
local code="$(echo -n "$1" | xxd -ps)"5
local length="${#code}"6
local i7
for (( i = 0; i < length; i += 2 ))8
do9
echo -n "%${code:$i:2}" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'10
done11
}12
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function encode_uri_component() {14
local text="${1}"15
local length="${#text}"16
local i char17
for (( i = 0; i < length; ++i ))18
do19
char="${text:$i:1}"20
[[ "$char" =~ [-_.!~*\'()a-zA-Z0-9] ]] && echo -n "$char" || create_utf8_code "$char"21
done22
}23
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encoded_username="$(encode_uri_component "username")"26
encoded_password="$(encode_uri_component "P@$$word")"27
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git clone "https://$encoded_username:$encoded_password@github.com/username/repository.git"
