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Created December 7, 2022 19:11
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Helpful shell commands to store a private key into an environment variable
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export-private-key-env-var.sh
# Get the private key from a JSON file using `jq`
# and store it into the `PRIVATE_KEY` environment variable:
export PRIVATE_KEY=$(jq -r '.private_key' service-account.json)
# Print a suitable value for GitHub secrets:
echo $PRIVATE_KEY
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