encrypt all files in a directory with ansible-vault

gistfile1.txt

for i in $(find . -type f); do ansible-vault encrypt $i  --vault-password-file ~/.vault && echo $i encrypted ; done

Thank You. 👍
Here is an alternative just incase someone finds it helpful. 😊

find . -type f -printf "%h/\"%f\" " | xargs ansible-vault encrypt

@atb00ker

Thank You. 👍
Here is an alternative just incase someone finds it helpful. 😊

find . -type f -printf "%h/\"%f\" " | xargs ansible-vault encrypt

This one works for files with spaces in their name

What about a command to vault all files named something.yml?

For instance:

group_vars > all > all.yml, password.yml
group_vars > test > test.yml, password.yml

Looking to vault all the password.yml files under those folders, and not have to do them one by one.

Find can be used to specify the name of the file as well!
Checkout here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5905066
Doing this recursively might do the trick.

@jdotsmith What you are looking for looks like this :

for i in $(find . -name password.yml); do ansible-vault encrypt $i  --vault-password-file ~/.vault && echo $i encrypted ; done

But you will need to adjust it of course.

Why not simply ansible-vault encrypt dir/* --vault-password-file ~/.vault for all files in a folder?

Why not simply ansible-vault encrypt dir/* --vault-password-file ~/.vault for all files in a folder?

this doesn't work with nested dirs