Best Practices for API Key Safety
15. 3. 2024https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5112595-best-practices-for-api-key-safety
echo "export SOME_API_KEY='yourkey'" >> ~/.zshrc
# or .~/bashrc
and the script can then just read the key
key="$SOME_API_KEY"
Note that the key is still stored in plain text.
Something about encryption here.