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When you use the 1Password desktop app integration to sign in to 1Password CLI, you can access any 1Password account you’ve added to the app on the command line. By default, all 1Password CLI commands are executed with the account you most recently signed in to, unless an account is specified with the --account flag.

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Choose an account to sign in to with op signin

To choose an account to sign in to, run op signin and select the account you want to sign in to from the list of accounts added to your 1Password app. If you don’t see the account you want to use, you may need to add it to the 1Password app.

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Specify an account per command with the --account flag

You can execute a command with a specific account by including the --account flag along with the account’s sign-in address (with or without https://) or ID. For example, to get a list of all vaults in an account with the sign-in address my.1password.com: 
op vault ls --account my.1password.com
You can use the --account flag to specify different accounts in scripts. For example: 
PASSWORD_1="$(op read --account agilebits-inc.1password.com op://my-vault/some-item/password)"
PASSWORD_2="$(op read --account acme.1password.com op://other-vault/other-item/password)"

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Set an account with the OP_ACCOUNT environment variable

If you only want to sign in to a specific account, set the OP_ACCOUNT environment variable to the account’s sign-in address or ID. You can also use this to specify an account in scripts. 
export OP_ACCOUNT=my.1password.com

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Find an account sign-in address or ID

To find details about all the accounts you’ve added to the 1Password app, run op account list. 
op account list
#code-result
$ op account list
URL                            EMAIL                              USER ID
my.1password.com               wendy.c.appleseed@gmail.com        JDFU...
agilebits-inc.1password.com    wendy_appleseed@agilebits.com      ASDU...
You can use the sign-in address listed under URL or the unique identifier listed under USER ID to refer to the account.

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