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bitwarden-cli

CLI to access and manage a bitwarden vault

Powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your bitwarden vault. Most features that you find in other Bitwarden client applications (desktop, browser extension, etc.) are available from the CLI.

secops

https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/

amd64

Installation

1. Add WakeMeOps repository

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upciti/wakemeops/main/assets/install_repository | sudo bash

2. Install bitwarden-cli

sudo apt install bitwarden-cli

Snippets

FROM wakemeops/minideb:bullseye

RUN install_packages \
    bitwarden-cli=2025.4.0*

USER 1001

- name: Install dependencies
  uses: upciti/wakemeops-action@v1
  with:
    packages: |
      bitwarden-cli=2025.4.0*

Download URLs

Version SHA256 Size (KB)
2025.4.0 7a58f5433d63279f09e96a2587bb00e2bce4143b7fbfbd911d777dc038208a60 24962
2025.3.0 57ecd3f715dbd73cbf3d4f024d63bcb1c75354c2b28dee486cae3b26303c4886 24870
2025.2.0 4ff0cac781660a33801a8f2792e1f0b47e54d774a70174b19441cba30c3cd0a4 24773

Blueprints

Debian packages listed on this page are generated from op2deb YAML blueprints. Blueprints for bitwarden-cli are versioned here.

Click here to see bitwarden-cli ops2deb blueprints
https://github.com/upciti/wakemeops/blob/main/blueprints/secops/bitwarden-cli/ops2deb.yml
name: bitwarden-cli
matrix:
  versions:
    - 2025.2.0
    - 2025.3.0
    - 2025.4.0
homepage: https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/
summary: CLI to access and manage a bitwarden vault
description: |-
  Powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your bitwarden vault.
  Most features that you find in other Bitwarden client applications (desktop,
  browser extension, etc.) are available from the CLI.
fetch: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/download/cli-v{{version}}/bw-linux-{{version}}.zip
install:
  - bw:/usr/bin/bw
script:
  - sed -i "s/dh_strip --no-ddebs/true/" {{debian}}/rules

The blueprint fetch keyword contains a URL template pointing to bitwarden-cli releases. Downloaded files are locked in a lockfile versioned here.

Click here to see bitwarden-cli release hashes
https://github.com/upciti/wakemeops/blob/main/blueprints/secops/bitwarden-cli/ops2deb.lock.yml
- url: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/download/cli-v2025.2.0/bw-linux-2025.2.0.zip
  sha256: ddb69bb4266470a37e65b715ddba4d052fd20e3b191de1b25cc1fcae727f6129
  timestamp: 2025-04-03 07:04:17+00:00
- url: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/download/cli-v2025.3.0/bw-linux-2025.3.0.zip
  sha256: 36cbcae8212fdc91f0542035e70952e30d5e1a65bcac0820539cf5389a77e1c9
  timestamp: 2025-04-16 15:08:51+00:00
- url: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/download/cli-v2025.4.0/bw-linux-2025.4.0.zip
  sha256: 10a9c1389cc18af474e2d78cbbdacb497805e8bdf926767c07a8504be412c60e
  timestamp: 2025-05-02 12:11:38+00:00

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