"bw edit item" gives an error message "Unknown cipher type."

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1

bw edit folder works just fine but

echo ‘{ “login”: {“username”: “anotherusername”}}’ | bw encode | bw edit item <item_id> throws the error below.

Using macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, bitwarden-cli is installed using brew.

Any ideas?

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(node:20603) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Unknown cipher type.
at CipherService. (/usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:67223:27)
at Generator.next ()
at /usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:66428:71
at new Promise ()
at __awaiter (/usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:66424:12)
at CipherService.encryptCipherData (/usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:67162:16)
at CipherService. (/usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:66547:22)
at Generator.next ()
at fulfilled (/usr/local/Cellar/bitwarden-cli/1.3.0/libexec/lib/node_modules/@bitwarden/cli/build/bw.js:66425:58)
(node:20603) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 3)
(node:20603) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

2

You’re not providing the full item template for editing. You should get the item first, then make the needed change, encode, and edit.

3

Ah okay, indeed this worked:

item_id=$(bw get item unique_item_name | jq -r ‘.id’)

bw get item $item_id | jq ‘.login.username = “new_username” | .login.password = “new_password”’ | bw encode | bw edit item $item_id

Thank you very much.