Hi Kirk, On Monday, October 1, 2018 5:39:10 PM CEST Kirk Liberty wrote: > Has there been any consideration/investigation/work towards adding native > encryption to tar?
It's possible through --use-compress-program/-I, see the manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html , cit.: | The '--use-compress-program' option, in particular, lets you | implement your own filters, not necessarily dealing with | compression/decompression. For example, suppose you wish to implement | PGP encryption on top of compression, using 'gpg' (*note gpg: | (gpg)Top.). The following script does that: Pavel