Workaround found: Feature Request: Renaming a Secure Note or other item?

[ghost]

There doesn't appear to be any way for lpass to rename a Secure Note or other item?

Are there any plans for an "lpass rename" or "lpass mv" command in the near future, by any chance?

[ghost]

I figured out how to do a rename. The following renames an existing item from "old-name" to "new-name" ...

echo "new-name" | lpass edit --sync=now --non-interactive --name "old-name"

[bcopeland]

I did just add a "lpass mv" -- but it only moves into folders instead of renaming leaf nodes, unlike the unix command of the same name. Perhaps it's not too late to make that one also support renaming. I'm a bit split on which is the least surprising mode of operation.

With the recent changes to edit, now you could also do "lpass edit old-name" and just change the "Name: old-name" line in your buffer.

[gunslingerfry]

@bcopeland : 'lpass edit old-name' and changing the Name field results in a change for website entries but does not result in a name change for secure notes. Is this expected or is this a regression?

[bcopeland]

Yes, I think this is just a regular bug, but I'm not sure it ever worked for notes, so (maybe?) not a regression. I believe lpass mv should work in any case though.

[gunslingerfry]

Sorry to bug you again Bob, but I only see mv with the {UNIQUENAME|UNIQUEID} GROUP syntax. I tried mv old-name "group/new-name" but it just created "group/new-name" and moved it to that group.

[bcopeland]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:43:28AM -0700, gunslingerfry wrote:

Sorry to bug you again Bob, but I only see mv with the {UNIQUENAME|UNIQUEID} GROUP syntax. I tried mv old-name "group/new-name" but it just created "group/new-name" and moved it to that group.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Darn. So, we should at least fix being able to
rename with edit.

From a quick look at the code, this might work for now?

    echo "newname" | lpass edit --name --non-interactive oldname

The problem looks to be that we collapse the edited fields back into the
original account but then disregard any edits made to non-note fields.
But there's a special case already for when just the name is edited.